I discovered a little bug into the file drivers/sound/ac97_codec.c It only affects the display of the PnP hexadecimal string of the codec, during the boot. The function codec_id(...) has simply a nonsense code. I think someone forgotten to complete it. Anyhow, here is my patch. If it is ok for the developers, good, otherwise I will use it onluy on my system. -- Roby email robylit@inwind.it robylit@tiscali.it WEB Page http://robylit.risorse.com http://web.tiscalinet.it/robylit