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Download this one. You won't acutally be "updating" MDK, rather adding another kernel, and keeping the current one. That is always a good idea, just in case something goes wrong with the new kernel. Just compile the kernel, and then modify your bootloader .conf file accordingly to include the 2.6.0 kernel. Hope that helps.

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iguana, i'm new to linux, so i dont know how to exactly do all this stuff? i downloaded the kernel, but i don't know what to do. also, how do i get my ati radeon 7000 to have opengl acceleration while using kde.

and when i do mandrake update, it gives me a lot of "bad signatures" for the downloaded stuff, should i still go ahead and install it, or no?

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I think the link he gave you is slightly wrong ... AFAIK it is a patch against 2.6.0-test11. I would try getting the full kernel - this way you don't need to learn how patch works (yet) :D

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.0.tar.bz2 <- the full kernel sources for linux-2.6.0 (~30-40MB)

As root, tar xvjpf linux-2.6.0.tar.bz2 ... then mv the directory it created to /usr/src

cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.0

If you want to add in supermount, get it from sourceforge and apply the patches (as outlined on the site). Then:

Configure the kernel:

make menuconfig

Compile the kernel:

make bzImage modules modules_install

HTH, and good luck

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Don't forget to symlink /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.6.0 (ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.0 /usr/src/linux) so that driver compilations like the nvidia drivers will work.

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how do i get sound to work, i'm using an ac'97 on the kt133 chipset, but no sound =\. sorry if i sound new, because i am

and also, how do i update kde to 3.1.4? i downloaded all the components, but i have no idea how to install or use kconstruct.

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Yep, NTFS is supported. However, you can only read files (or write to a file with the exact same filesize as before). Just enable NTFS support in your kernel (under File Systems).

To get sound to work, there is a section under Device Drivers - I'd recommend using ALSA over OSS (making sure to use OSS emulation in the ALSA section). Also, make sure you use alsamixer to unmute your sound channels.

As for KDE, no idea ... I'm more of a Gnome person. You're using Mandrake right? AFAIK, it should handle something like that for you if they have the packages... but I've never used Mandrake before.

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Just wait for Fedora Core 2 which won't be long off and will have Linux kernel 2.6 built in. Kernel compilation is probably the hardest thing you can do on Linux, so wait for someone to do it for you :p.

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