Taken the advice given for my sound problem and compiling the kernel. When I installed a Debian stock kernel from woody it uses initrd. I RTFM ("rtm" for Sarah) and still am not sure of its purpose. Can anyone here explain. Regards, Michael -- The archive is at https://www.libranetlinux.com/archive.html To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] with a subject of UNSUBSCRIBE.