Thanks Luke. Even though audio burning is working with 2.6.9, I am getting one strange warning in the start up--something about this part of the kernel seeming to be unmaintained and there being absolutely no dma so the process is slow. I also notice that with the 2.6.9 kernel it's trying to use acpi, while on previous kernels it said something about my bios being too old and turned it off; maybe I should turn this off, though I don't know if it has anything to do with the dma warning when recording. When I run dmesg, dma is indicated for the cdrw and I looked at the kernel config and it's definitely there. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."