Recently I have installed (not an upgrade) Fedora Core 7. everything works out the box except the soundsystem. During the login phase I hear the sound from the kde login event. But at some time the arts sound systems seems to halt. I cannot even stop artsd with a normal (TERM) kill. I have to use kill -9 (SIGKILL) to terminate artsd. After termination KDE will start an other artd and now everything seems to work. Any idee's how I can find the source of this problem? Andy Esten