A fix for this was committed last night and should appear in an etch snapshot build in the next few hours. If you are able to reproduce this bug, please test a snapshot build and provide results back to this report. Information about installing snapshot builds is available at: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel This patch will appear in packages with version 2.6.18.dfsg.1-21~snapshot.11113 or greater. -- dann frazier