Hello I'm almost as new to Debian and Linux as I am to DeMuDi, so I've kind of dropped myself in at the deep end I guess. I've successfully installed the demudi-2.4.18 kernel, which I must say was remarkably smooth i.e. my system still works jus as well as it did before I installed the new kernel. Well done to whoever packaged that up! However, when I get to the point of configuring demudi-base it comes up with: modprobe: Nothing to load ??? Specify at least a module or a wildcard like \* and then it hangs. I'm confused. Where should I specify these modules? Also my system can't find any opti92x module does this mean I have to go find/download one? I've been running the bluepoint/OPTi soundcard with mad16 semi-succesfully up to this point. modprobe won't load seq-oss either which makes me suspect I have conflicts with my modules (?) :-/ I will admit to being only about half-way through all the available documentation, which _is_ mighty, _especially_ if I was compiling it. I don't suppose anything like a straightforward demudi install HOWTO exists just yet (I guess you're all flat out with current developments). My eyes are going familiarly wiggly with on-screen reading, so I thought I'd dash off a quick email just to see if the list could give me any obvious pointers. forgive me if I'm being an utter twink here. If so, even a brief RTFM response would probably give me a significant clue. I include the results of my most recent lsmod & dmesg just to illustrate the point. yours hopefully tim hall tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ******************************************************************************** Module Size Used by Not tainted parport_pc 22056 1 (autoclean) lp 6336 0 (autoclean) parport 22976 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] serial 44064 0 (autoclean) opl3 11112 0 (unused) smc-ultra 5024 0 (unused) 8390 5920 0 [smc-ultra] ipv6 123424 -1 mad16 7392 0 (unused) ad1848 20896 0 [mad16] isa-pnp 28168 0 [serial smc-ultra ad1848] sb_lib 32480 0 [mad16] uart401 6080 0 [mad16 sb_lib] sound 52620 0 [opl3 mad16 ad1848 sb_lib uart401] soundcore 3492 5 [sb_lib sound] af_packet 11528 0 (unused) rtc 5528 0 (autoclean) ext2 30784 3 (autoclean) ide-disk 6624 4 (autoclean) ide-probe-mod 8080 0 (autoclean) ide-mod 130892 4 (autoclean) [ide-disk ide-probe-mod] ext3 56864 0 (autoclean) jbd 35272 0 (autoclean) [ext3] unix 13316 44 (autoclean) Linux version 2.4.18-586-demudi (free@leporello) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Tue Oct 15 11:19:17 CEST 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000003000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 12288 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 8192 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=demudi ro root=301 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 133.637 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 BogoMIPS Memory: 43976k/49152k available (808k kernel code, 4792k reserved, 196k data, 192k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb210, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing hardware on bus (00:00) Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Cronyx Ltd, Synchronous PPP and CISCO HDLC (c) 1994 Linux port (c) 1998 Building Number Three Ltd & Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 2580 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/done. Freeing initrd memory: 2580k freed VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 192k freed NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. Journalled Block Device driver loaded Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX3: chipset revision 0 PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x9000-0x9007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x9008-0x900f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: ST31720A, ATA DISK drive hdc: FX800S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 3331852 sectors (1706 MB), CHS=3305/16/63 Partition check: hda: [PTBL] [826/64/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1) Adding Swap: 98748k swap-space (priority -1) Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card 'SMC EtherEZ (8416)' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... MAD16 audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 CDROM Disabled. Joystick port enabled. IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0 IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver smc-ultra.c: Presently autoprobing (not recommended) for a single card. smc-ultra.c: ISAPnP reports SMC EtherEZ (8416) at i/o 0x240, irq 10. smc-ultra.c:v2.02 2/3/98 Donald Becker (becker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) eth0: SMC EtherEZ at 0x240, 00 00 C0 D1 23 E0,assigned IRQ 10 programmed-I/O mode. YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A