Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1438 mails)

[Larry Stotler <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Running 1`2.1 with KDE3

Good to hear.  Going to do that myself soon.

> Last night I did a zypper  'up' zypper downloaded TWO kernels.
> kernel-default and kernel-desktop.  Now I;m having trouble with my nvidia
> drivers. I guess it's confused.
>
> So which is the correct one for 12.1 ?

The desktop kernel uses pae by default(to enable the NX/XD bit on
32bit x86 chips).  It also has some optimizations for making
audio/video and other desktop tasks.

The default kernel was the older config that was the default for
openSUSE.  It doesn't enable PAE.

I had some issues a couple of versions ago that made it seem better to
use the default kernel on my Pentium 3 based machines(Pentium 3's
don't have NX/XD & I only have 1 Pentium 3 machine with more than 4GB
RAM, so I have the desktop kernel on it to use all 6GB).  I also have
2 Pentium M thinkpads that have 400Mhz front side bus.  Those chips do
not have PAE support.(tho the 533fsb models do).

If you have a 64bit chip, I would recommend using the 64bit kernel.
There's really no reason to use the 32bit on a 64bit machine.  And
most programs have been ported to 64bit(other than using windows
programs in wine).  I've been using 64bit for 4 years now with no
issues.
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