I have tried twice to update the kernel from 2.4.19-16 to 2.4.20 the first time and to 2.4.19-24 the second one.
The only problem that I am facing is that I can not get X to start. Now (after enabling ACPI) doing "shutdown -h now" my machine power-off (Femme, I know somebody said that it doesn't have anything to do with powering off, but in my case it does), my sound card is recognized (this problem has been a major PITA with Mandrake and this Toshiba laptop) and every service is starting fine but the graphical environment. Now I am absolutely clueless on what to do or where to go and will consider installing Mandrake again just a last resource(several installs in last 2 months in the process of learning but now I have a fairly decent setup that I don't want lose). I started with original /boot/config and only added support to ACPI and dropped a lot of modules, mainly ethernet cards that I don't use or need, old disks support, radio amateur support, SMP and picked Pentium III/Coopermine/Celeron as processor. Upgrade was made using gcc 3.2 (after doing the upgrade I read advises against it). Hints, clues, tips, advises or RTFM links will be truly appreciated. Adolfo
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