hi, as of RC1 of the upcoming Mandrake 9.2, an libao2 bug segfaults gcompris when playing with sounds. 2 solutions to get it working : - run it within KDE (so that artsd is running) and call it with "soundwrapper gcompris" - remove *arts* from /usr/lib/libao2 I hope we won't have a replacement for the canvas bug... with all new distribs! José