On Tuesday 20 June 2006 2:17 pm, S.W. Bobcat wrote: > Just for fun if you did and install rather than an update, drop by to the > 2.6.15 kernel at boot time and see if everything works fine; then do the > same with the 2.6.16 series. I have had problems with the 2.6.16 series -- > like you -- but everything runs fine under the 2.6.15 series. > > Hope this helps. > > Bob snip I have had problems with the 2.6.16-1.2115_FC4 kernel myself and know that with my system it is the kernel package and drivers (probably sound) that is causing the issue. There is also a weirdness with my cdrom drive and the kernel device mapper. >From dmesg after a clean boot and empty cdrom; device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdd: command error: error=0x50 { LastFailedSense=0x05 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown --> and so on----> end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 749952 hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdd: command error: error=0x50 { LastFailedSense=0x05 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds --> and so on John