A fix has been found for that hang, here is info from Bug 251164 cebbert at redhat.com 2007-08-31 16:54 EST Fix was found today: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/31/188 Not a final fix, just a hack, but this will be fixed properly soon. pekane52 at gmail.com 2007-08-31 17:30 EST That patch fixes the hang on my Dell Inspiron 8600. Thanks!