Hi Kurdt, I have no idea what is wrong. Anyway, I have a similar system and recently compiled a 2.4.10 kernel, using the debian kernel source package. I also included ac97_codec support and it works quite well. Regards, Joachim -- Joachim Fahnenmüller Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik Herder-Gymnasium Kattowitzer Straße 52 51065 Köln