Finally, I'm not the only one who thinks hotplug is a problem. As far as I'm concerned, hotplug should be due for a major revamp, or I guess someone has to find a better way of implementing hardware detection under linux, but I suppose until that time, hotplug can always be disabled, as an alternative. In my case, I run a desktop, so I never had hotplug freeze on me, however it takes almost a minute or so just for it to finish, and thats why I decided to just turn it off. Sure, after doing that, much of my devices did not work, but that was easily remedied in uncommenting a few things in rc.modules, and re-running alsaconf. Sure, if you want to add a new piece of hardware, this also might be a setback, but compared to 1+ minutes of boot time, and possible crashes with hotplug, its a small price to pay.... and thats my