thanks again to list members, in particular Nick & Christopher for the help in installing Gentoo
your suggestions were very useful, I ended up re:compiling the kernel (not as onerous as I was expecting really) & installing the sk98lin module to get my eth0 card sorted I've had a few late nights but I'm up and runnng now Xorg/nVidia & KDE desktop I still have a couple of things to work out and Alsa & hotplug are the next "challenges" but the documentation and forums are generally very good cheers................dave g Mail to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ================================================ Kmail 1.7.2/Kontact 1.0.2 KDE/Desktop 3.3.2 Gentoo Linux 2005.0 - Kernel 2.6.11-r7 (x86_64) ================================================
