The second time, it wouldn't see my sound card - no amount of fiddling around seemed to affect anything.
Will it work now? *chuckle* Is my next hassle going to be my nvidia card?
This was the whole reason I settled down with Mepis, remember - it's HW detection is superb...
(edit: added)
...to answer my own question, though, yes, it's time.
"This release has been somewhat delayed due to the switch to Linux 2.6.15
and the new hardware detection and activation infrastructure that comes
along with it (new udev and the demise of the old hotplug scripts"
[link|https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2005-December/060506.html|https://lists.ubuntu...ember/060506.html]
I'm not going to get to it this weekend (going to see Spamalot!), but I'll try it in the upcoming week! (Yes, I'll try both Ubuntu and Kubuntu)