I am using Linux version 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 (bhcompile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5)) #1 Thu Oct 20 01:28:35 EDT 2005 The CD player is a Pioneer CD/DVD R/W. I deon't use it often for sound, so I can't say since when sound is broken but it worked fine before. Also now it reads data disks without problems. DVD movies work fine. I have issued the hdparm -d1 /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd command. Both point to hdc. hdparm confirms that DMA is set to 1 but still there are short interuptions in the music. Any idea how I can fix this problem? Tia, Albert -- Skype name: amodderkolk