I've got a K8WE, and up until a few days ago, snd_ich worked just fine under 6.0-BETA3: pcm0: <nVidia nForce4> port 0x1800-0x18ff,0x1400-0x14ff mem 0xc8002000-0xc8002fff irq 22 at device 4.0 on pci0 pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] pcm0: <Analog Devices AD1981B AC97 Codec> Then suddenly, anything playing sound started to hang, and no sound would come out. I don't remember doing anything at that point in time -- I came back from work, and it just wasn't working. This message appeared in dmesg: pcm0: ac97 link rate calibration timed out after 1795248 us When it happened, I could unload snd_ich, but not sound. And the problem's been plaguing me ever since: as soon as I load the module, I get the link rate calibration error. I've since updated to BETA5, but am still seeing the problem. Additionally, when I tried to kldunload sound earlier today, my kernel panicked: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xa0 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xffffffff8025155b stack pointer = 0x10:0xffffffffa7bf79d0 frame pointer = 0x10:0x0 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 53790 (kldunload) trap number = 12 panic: page fault Uptime: 9m45s I didn't have a kernel with debugging symbols handy, unfortunately, but I've got another one built and ready to go, and I'll see if I can reproduce the panic later today. - Damian