Hi I have removed the link to the Kerneld script in all rc.X files in the init.d and therefore Kerneld is not launched anymore. Although right after login in (as root), if I do "lsmod" I already have the following: awe_wave 155664 0 sb 30852 0 uart401 5628 0 [sb] sound 55184 0 [awe_wave sb uart401] soundlow 240 0 [sound] soundcore 2192 7 [sb sound] The odd thing is they are not marked as [autoclean] which I would expect and they never seem to be unloaded at some point. Could that be what I have in my modules.conf that triggers "modprobe" (and therefore "insmod") before kmod kicks in? My modules.conf looks like this: alias sound sb alias midi awe_wave post-install awe_wave /usr/local/bin/sfxload /usr/local/synthfm.sbk options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 note: I have seen other modules being loaded with the [autoclean] option. I guess kmod is ok. Cheers, Fred "In a World Without Fences and Borders who needs Windows and Gates!" ///// ( / \ ) ( O O ) ______________________oOOo-( )-oOOo_______________________ Frederic Soulier mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 (0)181 562 0959 ______________________________Oooo________________________ oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_)