gidday, i followed some of the advice that you guys gave, installed some more stuff (specs, and patch rpms) and so when i go to do rpm --rebuild (or --recompile; either give me this) i810tt-etc.src.rpm i get a page or so of output, and then the last few lines look like this. KERNEL_VERSION=2.4.3-20mdk KERNEL_VERSION_MAJOR=2.4 Something wrong with detection of KERNEL_VERSION? Please check Makefile and report bug KERNEL_VERSION_MAJOR=2.4 agpgart.o not yet available for non-2.2 kernels exit -1 Expect kernel source at location /usr/src/linux Sym.link /usr/src/linux -> where you have your sources make: *** [sanity] Error 255 Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.14526 (%build) obviously, my linux sources aren't in /usr/src/linux...in fact the dir does not even exist. so yeah, i know my header files (the next thing it looks for) are in /usr/include/ but i'm not sure about the normal source files. any help would be wikid, wikid. thanking ya muchly, Ant