X should not hang on i7k laptop and most other laptops if you enable APM. Often with RH, the kernel recompiled is installed in a wrong place, so you get in fact the old kernel still. To make sure you have APM: study dmesg output, there should be APM BIOS 1.2 or something like that there, and do ls /proc/apm -- there should be that process running. Cheers, Alexy -- WWW: http://www.afterstep.org/ FTP: ftp://ftp.afterstep.org/ MAIL: http://www.caldera.com/linuxcenter/forums/afterstep.html