(In reply to David Rankin from comment #23) > Created attachment 823676 [details] > knotify.kcrash after snd-pcm-oss module loaded > > Has no effect. Still crashes in the same manner, e.g. > > $ cat /etc/modules-load.d/snd-pcm-oss.conf > snd-pcm-oss > > (having rebooted and restarted) > > associated libjack kcrash attached. Using OSS is not a solution, but a workaround. This means that you can use OSS instead of Jack in KDE3 (KDE3 control center -> Sound & Multimedia -> Sound System -> "Hardware" tab -> Audio Device).