Not quite sure I understand the point of forwarding back to the 'source'... Which seems pretty stale at this point. I think it'd be nice to have this fixed for etch, especially given the triviality of the fix (which could even be #ifdef'd __ia64__ for non-contagiousness sake...) HTH T-Bone -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/