I'm running Slackware 10.0 and KDE 3.2.3. I had stuff set up the way I like 
it, and little by little things seem to be breaking. I've noticed this 
before, and it's almost like I need to do a fresh install to get everything 
working again. I'm waiting for 10.1 to come out before I do another install.

For instance, I used to be able to play music CD's from the CD-ROM drive, 
either by pressing the play button on the drive or using the KDE CD player or 
XMMS. I can't do that anymore. It doesn't "see" /dev/hdd anymore. It used to 
work, then a few months ago it got all glitchy. I managed to reconfigure 
things somehow in the CD player app and it worked, but now it's failed again. 
Any apps I try to use generally lock up while searching for the drive. If it 
finds the disc at all, it plays for one second then stops. 

When I press the play button on the drive itself, it revs up then slacks off, 
over and over. It used to work, now it doesn't. I haven't changed anything 
in /etc/fstab, or anything else that I know of. I know the drive is good 
because I use it for ripping stuff to my harddrive all the time. 

Another example is SMTP in Kmail. It will work fine for months, then suddenly 
I can't send mail from tigerflag.com, and neither can my husband in his user 
account. I get an error message that it can't find the account. This happened 
a few months ago. At one point I rebooted the computer and things were fine 
again. When it happened yesterday, I finally toggled the default account to 
intergate.com (I use two accounts: smtp.intergate.com and smtp.tigerflag.com) 
and it started working again for _both_ accounts. It was like something got 
jammed, and once I successfully sent from intergate.com, then tigerflag.com 
worked again. It doesn't make any sense!

While I'd appreciate any suggestions for fixing the CD problem, I'm actually 
more interested in why my setup seems to be deteriorating over time.

TIA,
Siri Amrit

 
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