I just spent 12 hours upgrading my kernel on my laptop to enable sound. How did I do this? I had to rpm in the kernel from redhat's site. Otherwise, my video and audio would not work together. I have never installed linux on a laptop before this, though I have upgraded kernels on other nonlaptop systems. Is it me, or should I have more freedom with my kernel? After I rpm'd the kernel in, I went to look at it, to compile it- guess what? /usr/src didn't have an entry for that kernel. Does debian do this when you use apt-get to pull down the kernel, or does it leave the source in /usr/src? I am going to be installing linux on a box of mine at home, and am now starting to consider other distros (I have used rh for over 2 years now- with a sprinkling in of other distros.) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/