a quick google search of your first dmesg line is pretty uncomfortable: looks like many users experienced the problem without any solutions. Best link I've found (a question with at least one reply): http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2002-January/015637.html -- Marco Bonetti Slackintosh Linux Project Developer: http://www.slackintosh.org Linux-live for powerpc: http://www.slackintosh.org/pub/rsync/mb/linux-live My webstuff: http://sidbox.homelinux.org My GnuPG key id: 0x86A91047