I have read several times when searching for stuff about smp that power management and smp are incompatible. Yet looking at the config file for the standard kernel, 2.6.12-9-amd64-k8-smp, in Ubuntu 5.10, I see: CONFIG_PM=y Is this something different, or should it have been set to 'n'? - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/