I've installed Woody, but have discovered that I don't have (a) ALSA for my sound (alternately ymfpci.o) or (b) support for my USB (which I assume will be necessary if I want to upload my digital camera pictures to my Linux box.)
So I found out I have to rebuild my kernel. Never having done this before, I went to the Linux Kernel HOWTO, and pulled up HOWTO Rebuild the Kernel. The stuff looks like greek to me. For one thing, it starts a person out in BASH, switches to X [do you really need X to rebuild the kernel???], loops out to telnet terminals, and gets me completely lost in the process. For another thing, I am not at all sure which modules I'll be needing, and it looks like I'll have to know that. I can pick up my filesystem from module okay, and I can figure out my chip, and I can probably safely assume that I have a PCI motherboard. But most of these things were bypassed in the initial woody installation. Ideally, it would be nice to get a list of the modules that I already have and their installation values -- I am sure that they would be listed somewhere in ETC, if I knew where to look. So I was wondering -- are there any better howtos out there, possibly more in line with Woody? Or is there a newbie guide on rebuilding the kernel? Sorry to seem stupid here, but it may be an accurate assessment %-) Anyhow, this looks like a fairly scary process when I may wreck the system and have no idea what I am doing (kid at the wheel of a steamroller syndrome... what's this button do?). Any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
