Hi, There was a problem with the NeoMagic MagicMedia 256 sound driver in kernels 2.6.6-1.440 and earlier, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121601 This is fixed both upstream in the Linus kernel, and in Red Hat Fedora kernels as well. If you get a newer kernel (I know that 2.6.7-1.488 works for example) your laptop will not freeze, but your sound might also not work. I have not been able to get actual sound out of the laptop, but at least it doesn't freeze. Dan On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 14:34 -0400, Jose Moreno wrote: