F8T3 KDE Sound - Sound server fatal error

[Gerry Tool]

This morning after rebooting following a kernel and kmod-nvidia
upgrade, the sound system is cycling through trying to start and
presenting a message window that says
"Sound Server fatal erorr - cpu overload, aborting."

Disabling the sound system in KDE Control Panel > Sound & Multimedia >
Sound System stops the message, but of course sound would be nice.

Any others seeing this, or any hints on how to fix it?

Thanks.

Gerry