I recently upgraded from kernel 2.6.9 to kernel 2.6.10, with a lot of messy outcomes: -sound card couldn't be detected -usb could not be detected -wireless card would have problems with Wins wrapper (which it had not done since I upgraded from FC2 to FC3) I decided to remove 2.6.10 and go back to 2.6.9. However, lately I have noticed a couple of ohter problems. Mainly, even thou my sound card is detected and works OK, it seems that now and then (specially when getting my screensaver on) when I am playing an audio file it sounds like a 'scratched record'. By that I mean that the audio file kind of gets stuck and repeats a part of the file over for a few seconds. Any thoughts on that matter? -X