make all makes the bzImage? i may try that next time, much easier. i think i'm going to get arthritis since switching to linux with all the typing. my WPM has increased by a ton, however.

Wish mine would.

heh heh, i just noticed your sig.

Should i just stick with my onboard graphics? (intel Extreme Graphics or 856G)

you can use the radeon, you just won't have the 3D acceleration until you install the ati drivers. so your fps will be much lower than it would be otherwise -- probably something like 200 or 300 compared to easily ten times that amount or more (you can check your fps with the glxgears command).

if you don't need 3D acceleration, it's not really a huge deal. i used my radeon with the vesa drivers for all my desktop/multimedia uses for months before getting the ati drivers working. the 2D performance is a little better with the ATIs, but not enough to really be majorly noticeable. don't get me wrong, it is better, but if you aren't the type of person who is "bugged" knowing their hardware isn't functioning at 100% (or higher ) i wouldn't worry too much about it.

if you absolutely have to have 3D, or need to for gaming, etc. check out this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...drivers+radeon

it's massive, but all the answers are there. gl.

Hi everyone,

I'm not sure what version of module-init-tools to download. There's 0.9.13, 0.9.14, 0.9.15-pre1, 0.9.15-pre2, 3.0, and testsuite versions. Which one?

The last time I compiled module-init-tools, it stopped my old kernel from being able to call modprobe properly. I would get the message "Kernel requires old modprobe". What do I do to avoid this problem? Yes, I did do "make moveold".

And someone please tell me how to avoid "Unresolved Symbols" errors during make modules_install. Arrgh!

Are you getting Kernel 7.6?

You mean 2.6? Yes.

After i do make modules, it tells me I may need to install module-init-tools. But the last time I installed module-init-tools, it broke my kernel 2.4's modprobe. I get the error message "Kernel requires old modprobe, but could not find old modprobe". And even after upgrading module-init-tools, several modules still fail to load. Is there something I need to change in modules.conf to get my modules to work in 2.6.1?

Thanks,
Vince

Edit: Another thing. Mandrake seems to be forcing me to install the supermount patch in order to mount my Windows partition. But when I used RedHat, the partition mounted perfectly without it. Any way to not use supermount and still be able to load my partitions?

Maybe a fresh start will be better. Here is what I'm planning:
2. Go to The Linux Kernel Archives.
Not as root!
3. Download the Linux 2.6 kernel and save it to your /usr/src directory.

4. As root, run the following commands in the console. (Note: This assumes you've installed your Linux distribution with all the developer options. If you haven't, take a look at your distribution's website for more information on 2.6 kernel packages you can download.)
Remember to NOT be logged in as root on-line!
tar -xzvf linux-2.6.0.tar.gz
cd linux-2.6.0
make menuconfig
Make note of what device the /dev/cdrom links to, in this case it is /dev/hdc, which is common (hdc is the master device on the secondary IDE channel). Now let's look at the permissions for this device. I will use hdc in my examples but you should use whatever you found out in the prior step (what /dev/cdrom links to): ls -l /dev/hdc
brw------- 1 root disk 11, 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/hdc

The output would look something like the above. It belongs to the user root and the group disk. We want to change the permissions so it is still owned by root but with the cdrom group and all users in the cdrom group should have all permissions for the device:
chown root.cdrom /dev/hdc - this changes the ownership to the root user and cdrom group
chmod g+rwx /dev/hdc - this gives the cdrom group members read, write and execute permissions on the device

Log out, log in again and try to play something
which pppd
/usr/bin/pppd
which chat
/usr/bin/chat
which minicom
/usr/bin/minicom