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> Now I'm faced with my utter ignorance. I have a couple linux boxes, but > this is my first crack at debian. There are some patches that let my use > various hardware features (eg touch screen), but they come in the form of > .diff files. I haven't dealt with this file type before. How do I use > these files? A diff file is created by (surprise) the program 'diff'. There is a program called patch for automatically applying diff files to an original file (often referred to as .orig). you may find the following works: patch -p0 filename.diff For <lots of years> people have distributed diffs designed for patch as .patch files rather than .diff files, so it is possible your .diff file specifically does not work with patch, or is very old. Anyway, you should be able to get there eventually, just fiddle the arguments a little. Oh, you have to have the original (unmodified) file that you apply the patch to, the .diff only contains the differences to the original. Corrin Lakeland -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6jGhz9o3gUBuxj/sRAgVjAKCjGioAaMv+LfNhqhMLoCPMKEA92gCgo1K2 kd0Fdt12TvqwdKbfkjXYq9Q= =Z5MK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----