There seems to be a problem with the ti driver on the alpha, see PR kern/8873. I don't know if it's already fixed. Juergen Weiss -- Juergen Weiss | Universitaet Mainz, Zentrum f"ur Datenverarbeitung, weiss@uni-mainz.de | 55099 Mainz, Tel: 06131/39-26361, FAX: 06131/39-26407