Thanks everyone, the glib patch solved the stupid Kernel problem and other compilation problems and I am just working on Alsa to get it to work, hope that soon I am going to be able to listen to my mp3s again. cheers erik ----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list ----- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html