CPU overload, aborting. That is something I regularly see on my fresh installed 9.3 What is aborted is not clear because sound is still there for notifications and so. I googled and found that it is a longstanding problem with for me no practical solutions. I have patched with YOU and are up to date. I am using KDE on my Pentium II with 256 Mb memory. With 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 I had a more or less smooth running system with at least no sound problems. I have a Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128 running. I am still using Kmix but after reading through the problem solving I tend to delete this volume control. Only point, it is part of a complete package. I have looked at AlsaMixer but must admit that I do not understand how to open lines, what this padlocks do etc. It has still not a nice and simple Gui. From the literature about the fatal sound errors it looks as it was expected that the problem in the 2.6 kernel would be past. For me it just started there. Could somebody give me some hints how to solve my problem?