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I loaded Mandrake 9.2 onto my Toshiba 5205-S703 and everything seems to be fine except for I get no sound. I understand this is directly related to the ACPI for this computer. I see a toshiba patch under the ACPI folder when I do a search. How do I get this to load. I have tried getting a new Kernel, but I cannot even get the "make menuconfig" to work. It tells me I need Ncurses libraries installed. From what I can tell, the ACPI was copied onto the hard drive, but it is not loaded. I am definitely a "newbie", although I admined a Risc6000 Unix system years ago. Definitely dusting off some old Unix books for this. Anyways, I reinstalled 9.2 and tried a few things, but I cannot even get into the Kernel configurator. I would like to do this without having to install a new kernel at this point, but whatever it takes. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.