from what i can tell, it's getting progressively easier to drop in a 2.6.0-test kernel these days, so i just wanted to make some observations and ask some questions in order to summarize the process. feedback always appreciated. newer RPMs ---------- it appears that there's no longer any need to get newer (rawhide) versions of things like modutils, initscripts, etc. the versions in fedora 0.94 seem to work fine. does this sound about right? USB support ----------- once upon a time, you would have wanted to edit the /etc/rc.sysinit file and change the lines similar to: action $"Initializing USB keyboard: " modprobe keybdev 2> /dev/null action $"Initializing USB mouse: " modprobe mousedev 2> /dev/null so that the module names were no longer keybdev and mousedev, but were usbkbd and usbmouse. now that doesn't appear to be necessary anymore. in fact, it *appears* that you can remove those two lines entirely. from running "make xconfig", it looks like all you have to do is select "USB", then input device support, with which you get basic mouse and keyboard support automatically. i don't see separate config options for mouse and keyboard, so i'm suspecting these two lines can just be removed. can anyone confirm/deny that? /etc/rc.sysinit --------------- there are a number of other changes that can be made to this file. one is to change all occurrences of /proc/ksyms -> /proc/kallsyms more to come later, particularly activating "sysfs". rday