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[Mr. Chopper]

Hi all, I just installed Knoppix a couple days ago. I have a few questions:

1. How do I automount my CD / hard drives?
2. How can I make my synaptics touchpad actually work like a touchpad?
3. How do I compile the kernel- would this make my CD drive work if it can't mount?

Thx in advance for the help

[mzilikazi]

Maybe this helps w/ the touchpad:
http://compass.com/synaptics/

I *think* support is now in the kernel so you just have to configure it but I may be waaaay off base as I've never even seen one of em let alone configured one.

Dunno about automount (don't like that at all) but recompiling a kernel is a piece of cake if you do it the Debian way. Here's a link although even this is more effort than is really required:
http://www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm

I prefer to get my source from kernel.org. Put it in /usr/src
tar xvfj kernel-source-2.6.7.tar.bz2
ln -sf kernel-source-2.6.7 linux
cd linux
make menuconfig
make-kpkg buildpackage -rev your.version kernel_image
cd ..
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.7_your.version_i386.deb

It also create headers and docs which can be installed w/ dpkg. If you need to restart definitely DO NOT follow the directions in the link I posted just start again but do not specify a version. Of course you'll need to move /lib/modules out of the way to install your remade kernel.

There is no need to update grub as it is done automatically. Dunno about lilo. *hint* get grub.

If you have nvidia forget the nvidia driver instructions there and use Kano's script instead.

I presume you are aware you can mount your drives by hand?