Hi! This morning my system froze when it was about bringing up alsasound. I didn't change anything kernel or alsa related since last boot, when it was all working fine. Tried slightly older versions of alsa-lib and co, compiled kernel and modules again to make sure it's not some gcc compatibiliy issue. Tried a new kernel (2.6.15 instead 2.6.13). If I start alsasound on the console, the usual output happens and after a delay of about 1 sec there's some error output, a lot of gibberish ending with: <6>note: events/0[3] exited with preempt_count 1 It's nowhere in the logs and I wasn't like writing down the whole screen. Have been surprised by lastlog and faillog being binary!? lspci lists it just fine, but I wonder if my card is broken now, and how to go about diagnosis. I will be thankful for any suggestion. And all that just when Steve D posted his work on Gnomes :} --- Thorsten Wilms