hi guys ! i have just built and booted into 2.5.41, and it turned out to be easier than i thought. everything works as before, and the kernel has now been running stable for over a day. i would encourage other audio users to give it a try as well, it's painless. using a current distro (suse80), i didn't even have to update userspace tools (at least nothing has bitten me yet). be sure to have a backup, of course. i have only scsi disks, so i can't say how the IDE stuff turned out, but i hear it is sane again. best, jörn benchmarks coming.... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Kurfürstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server) http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/ (Linux Audio Developers)