Sorry, I realized I left out a bunch of useful, and perhaps critical information after I sent my original email...
> try akpi, akpi.sourceforge.net, but .... OK, I'll have a look at that... Hmmm... I can't get ther right now, I'll try later. > which kernel are you using? 2.4.24, straight from www.kernel.org (or one of it's mirrors, more likely -- I don't recall offhand) > and what have you compiled in your kernel? ACPI (enabled all parts), PPP, and the Trident audio driver > only acpi support or fan,button,thermal,battery modules? Yes to all > Which kde version? The stock version that comes with woody, it appears to be 2.2.1 > Sorry for the question, but few more info would be really > useful. By Maybe kde > No, as I said, it's my fault for not including enough information in my original request. It looks now like I should just upgrade to the latest KDE. Since I am somewhat new to Debian (although not new to Linux, and certainly not new to upgrades gone awry), I am a little paranoid about just editing my sources.list file and executing (I believe this would be the correct one): # apt-get upgrade kde Does anybody know if there some way I could do this in steps, in such a manner as I could download the files to be upgraded, burn them to CD-ROM, and then upgrade from the CD-ROM later? I realized that this is more of a "debian-users" type of question, but the reason I ask is specifically because I have a laptop -- I prefer to keep all of my installation media & upgrades on CDROM so that, when everything falls apart (as it does occasionally), and I am in the airport/hotel/car trying to reinstall from scratch, I can just pull out the CD's, follow my notes, and recreate what I had before. Thanks again for the help. --wpd
