On my Compaq Presario X1000 series laptop my mouse was not recognized after a kernel upgrade. I do not know if it broke because of the kernel or not, but here is how I fixed it. Open /etc/modules in a text editor Put in the line ‘psmouse proto=bare’ This happened on a Debian system but

Hopefully I will coherently explain how to build a remote kernel here. I recently (well if you are reading this in echo date(‘Y’); it was a while ago) recieved an older server from and upgrade a buddy of mine did. I needed to rebuild the kernel for smp (Symetric MultiProcessing) but I was too impatient

Wow! Now before you get excited let me preface this by saying that I use a dual (At minimum) monitor system. So if you have been following my rantings along you will know that I installed Gnome on my desktop. Well right now I do not have a dual head card cause a friend sold

So I’ve got this great idea for a program that I would like to start building this summer. I pretty much only use my laptop so I did not have a desktop system setup and I needed more power than my laptop affords me. Well I got my desktop system back from a friend and