Will McDonald wrote on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:30:12 +0000: > You could try hacking around in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf ? Obviously make > a backup copy first. :) Ah, thanks. That shows "nforce AC'97 sound controller" or so using a driver intel-8x0m. Onboard video and LAN work fine, but not sound. I suppose if I want to stop it freezing I've to go to Nvidia and look for a sound driver. > # grep -r snd /etc/* mostly in the alsa directory. I think I would need to stop modprobe from detecting the soundcard. That's not much different from disabling the soundcard, see next. > Is sndconfig enabled in the various /etc/rc.N directories? no sndconfig or snd-config, but snd mentioned in rc.sysinit and alsa in the stop and reboot scripts (that's where the "saving mixer settings" is coming from). I didn't really want to comment out stuff in the rc files, so I have switched off onboard sound in the BIOS. Freezing has stopped. > > # chkconfig --list | grep -i snd > > Have you also tried setting the runlevel to 3 and running startx > manually to see if the problem still occurs there? Seems so, it stops after "starting anacron OK" (when switching to runlevel 3). Don't know what next option is, but i have given up on that, see above. Thanks for the hints, anyway! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com