Thanks everybody for your assistance sor recompiling my kernel. It now works pretty well. I have sound support, APM, and other stuff... Now I have other questions... I downloaded the xmms player in rpm and the pciutils in tar.gz form. I installed both using alien -i and they appear in dselect, but I can't use neither of them. Is there any way I can put xmms in the X menus and pciutils in the path? Thanks for your assitance... Ronald