As I understand it, events/0 becomes active when an interrupt occurs in the system. But how do you tell what specific device is sending the interrupt? I have searched the web extensively but have been unable to find the answer to this question. Tom Arnall north spit, ca - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html