I have found a solution. from http://redhat.secsup.org/fedora/core/updates/5/i386/ reinstall kernel-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5.i686.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5.noarch.rpm boot the old, well working kernel and reinstall fglrx module from ati ( ati-driver-installer-8.26.18-x86 ) fglrx and eth0 are still on one interrupt without any trouble at all. [bla@bnl-laptop ~]$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 173527 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 1638 IO-APIC-edge i8042 3: 3274 IO-APIC-edge serial 7: 2 IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 655 IO-APIC-level acpi 12: 145 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 27437 IO-APIC-edge ide0 16: 279301 IO-APIC-level eth0, fglrx 17: 140519 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb3 18: 1 IO-APIC-level yenta, uhci_hcd:usb4 19: 3 IO-APIC-level ohci1394, Intel ICH6 Modem 20: 185 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2 21: 16892 IO-APIC-level Intel ICH6, ipw2200 NMI: 0 LOC: 111609 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 Regards Blagovest Lazarov -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=101829&topic_id=23949&forum=10#forumpost101829