I'm in somewhat of a quandary here. I can use konstruct and build the entire KDE 3.2 system from source. Everything works fine except for: 1. kcheckpass . . . I cannot unlock the screen saver, and no combination of SGID, SUID, ownerships seem to work. 2. I cannot reliably add icons to the panel or KStart menu. If I install everything from the rpms, the applications work as expected. However, I then run into the following issues. 1. No ALSA (as reported earlier) 2. Applications like amarok compile but do not work (worked via Konstruct). I noticed that libglib is a bit different via rpms than a straight compile and install. I also noticed that libmng is missing the libtool file. I rebuilt libmng and installed it. I was then able to compile other systems based on the rpm install. However, when I tried to recompile arts from source and just install the daemon, that failed miserably. Right now I'm running OSS drivers, but I am missing a lot of the functionality of my sound card (TurtleBeach Santa Cruz). I would like to get ALSA working with the rpm install of KDE 3.2. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance . . . /mde/