Hey Group; Great news on moving away from 8.2 is the ability to compile a new kernel that runs. I have been building kernels for about 8 years and under 8.2 all failed. However, alsa went just fine. Under 9.0 and SuSE's stock kernel alsa-drivers would not compile at all due to the kernel version and linux/include files. I replaced the SuSE source and kernel with 2.4.22 and now even alsa is compiling. Great news! GCC 3.# seems to be fixed and now even the kernel and kernel drivers (alsa, nvidia and etc) should work. -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 a MSDOS Virus "Free Zone" OS Email: n5xwb@hal-pc.org " http://counter.li.org " #279316