On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > i removed the alsa packages and recompiled the > kernel 2.5.24 with the support for my intel pci > card. and it works!!! That part does. Changing to a different kernel series, especially a development one, involves many, many other things that MUST be done to remain compatible, as you are finding out. Your troubles are just beginning, if my guess is right. This is not a job for newbies. You might be able to find a script front end for all the detailed tasks that must be done. Even then you may also have to replace a bunch of user space programs, too. So if you think you are tired of it now.... > 1. where do i edit what keymap linux shall have > at startup. i want the se-latin1 swedish as > default. On a redhat system (and SuSE was originally redhat derived), you look for a bootup file in /etc/init.d (standardized directory) called something like keytable. In that file you will find a line something like the following: . /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and that is the file in which you must set the variables you need. Mine says simply: KEYTABLE="us" But remember, that is Red Hat specific. See your initscripts package documentation, or wherever your distribution keeps it. > 2. i have still the (none) at login. what did > linux meant who was there before and how do i > put that back? I assume that your login prompt is what you are talking about. That prompt is highly customizable, and is set through whatever getty program you use, but it is mostly a matter of preference. Just ignore it for now, if the rest is intelligible enough for you to log in. If you go with mgetty (eventually, not now), and are willing to plow through it's documentation, you can even get the prompt to beep at you. But fooling with that now, with your level of understanding, could easily make your system unbootable. Wait till you know EXACTLY how to rescue an unbootable system, from a variety of problems, and ALWAYS make copies of old working config files, especially getty and inittab config files (inittab is perhaps the most dangerous file on the system to fool with -- "init" is the mother of all user space processes). > 3. how do i increase/decrease volume on the card? Use a mixer program. I like "aumix", especially for scripting. There are many others. LCR -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list