Alright, I traced it down to: the windows primary soundcard, I guess...? It is a Guillemot Maxi Studio Isis that does not have any working driver support for linux, yet (at least, it did not have it last year). So I bought another soundcard, that I can use under linux. I guess that the kernel in Suse 7.3 could handle the two soundcards, so long, the kernel in Suse 8.0 seems to have problems with the guillemot soundcard. How can I deactivate the loading of the modules for the Guillemot Soundcard (It is the "maestro" module)? When I log into kde 3 with root, I get the message: May 21 02:49:13 Halley modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 May 21 02:49:13 Halley modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 May 21 02:49:13 Halley modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 May 21 02:49:13 Halley modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 but any sounds are played via my second soundcard (Riva TNT 2). So, for me, it looks like the drivers above are meant for the guillemot soundcard..... I don't get these messages as a normal user on login, but instead the system crashes. So I guess, it all comes down to the guillemot soundcard. I hope, anyone can tell me, how to get rid of the soundcard, without removing it, cause I really want to use it in windows.....sometimes..;-) Regards, Sebastian