Debian Q's

[dmd3x]

I just installed Debian for the first time after using RedHat and Mandrake, and I must say it's quite amazing so far.

A few things I would like to do with it are:

-Update the kernel to 2.6.x (right now it's 2.2 lol)

-Get sound working - Mandrake and RedHat just did this for me so now I don't have a clue. I want to get the sound working second, after the kernel upgrade because I heard that 2.6 has better support for sound.

Can I update the kernel using apt?

[deathadder]

You can download the kernel source with apt, 'apt-cache search kernel 2.6' to get the name of the package, but you have to do the configuring and compile, make sure that you include the right module for your sound card when you do recompile

[dmd3x]

is there a command i can use to check what kernel version i'm currently running?

Also, how would I go about putting in a module for my sound card?

[sharth]

current kernel version : uname -r


are you using debian woody, sarge or sid???

woody: add these 2 lines to your /etc/apt/sources.listdeb http://www.backports.org/debian stable kernel-2.6
deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian stable kernel-2.6and then either apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.3 and build the kernel yourself, or apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686

sarge: apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.3 for the kernel source. or install this for the 2.6.3 binary : http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.6.3-i386/kernel-image-2.6.3-1-686_2.6.3-2_i386.deb

sid: apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.3 or apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.3-686

[sharth]

and on the sound card, what sound card do you have? or if its onboard (built into the motherboard), what motherboard do you have?

if you don't know either of those, what computer is your's called, (ie, dell whatever, or compaq whatever)