I now think that I should explain how I have set up my computer because what I thought should be irrelevant may somehow be the cause of my troubles. I welcome criticism.
I have separate partitions on my hard drive for WindowsXP and two versions of Debian woody. I think of one Debian partition as my working version and my other as my testing version, a place where I can try out new programs until I am sure that they work and not spoil my working system. When something works, I then install it on my working partition. This system worked well with my upgrade to KDE 3.1.4. All that I have written about my kernel has been on my testing partition.Here is a posible complication that could be causing my trouble. The lilo that controls my computer is in the working woody partition. However, in the final step of installing a new kernel, lilo is used. Because I did not want my whole computer messed up, I installed the lilo with the new kernel information on the testing partition not the MBR. I then copied the information that the upgrade process installed in lilo.conf to the lilo.conf on my working woody partition. I can still boot into any of the three partitions using lilo. The testing partition has the 2.4.22 kernel and I can use this partition to go on the internet or print. However cat /proc/devices tells me that I have ide devices not scsi devices, although I made the change in creating the kernel. The question is whether my computer is defaulting to the original 2.4.22 and ignoring the upgraded version. If this is the explanation, and I have my doubts, how can I get the computer to use the upgraded kernel which I have every reason to believe is installed? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]