opensuse 11.3, stock kernel, nvidia with the 256.53 (which is working fine) Hi, I woke up this morning and like I usually do I opened up Dolphin, went to the folder with all my music, found a song I wanted to listen to as I dressed and started to play it. The sound was *horrible*! The song was playing, but it sounded awful, like it was someone scratching a record or something. I thought it was exceedingly strange, but figured a reboot should 'fix' it. Reboot didn't work because the system wouldn't shut down. I normally leave my system running 24/7/365. I've shut it down a few times since I've had 11.3 installed and *most* of those *few* other times, it did the same thing...it just hanged at a dark gray screen (not black). Once I waited half a day to see if it would clear up and shut down - it didn't. I had to hard boot, which I know is very bad, but I had no other choice. Once I got back to startup, now the system startup (fast boot) is slower than molasses in January. It used to pop through and get me to my desktop in 30 seconds or less...now it's taking almost 3 minutes, and when it does get back to my desktop, the sound is still horrible. What could have happened overnight to make my system suddenly useless like this? I've looked at the msg.log thing in /var/log, but I don't understand it enough to get anything out of it unless it specifically said 'YOUR SYSTEM IS ABOUT TO BLOW UP' or anything along those lines. Is there some kind of bug that's keeping my system from shutting down or restarting? (downloading a new kernel is prohibitive because I'm on dialup) If any other info is needed to help me figure out why *suddenly* my system has turned to garbage, please just shout out and I'll get it here. Thanks, John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org