Hi, > Here goes release canditate 2. The aic7xxx problems should be fixed. I've still got the same stability problems as with rc1. I booted rc2 and it was working fine for two or three hours. Then I thought "Hey, while I go to work I could rip and encode a CD". Well, so did I, and just as it started to rip the 2nd track (and to encode the first one with oggenc) the system froze. Sound stopped playing, the mouse froze, nothing worked. As before I found nothing in the logs. My .config is attached, if you need more informations please contact me, I'd like to help (and I'd also like to have a stable system with DMA mode again, as it wasn't working in last few previous kernels;). My system is a AMD K6-2+, Asus P5A, SB AWE 64 ISA PnP (I used Alsa 0.9.2, but in rc1 I also had problems without it), nVidia TNT, two cheap network cards and a few disks. .config is attached. Thanks, Sven