https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231153 johantuitman@yahoo.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|INVALID | ------- Comment #30 from johantuitman@yahoo.com 2007-02-16 10:15 MST ------- Sorry for re-opening the bug, but I really think this should be fixed, maybe in upcoming versions of SUSE. I did select the 32-bit Nvidia by intention because I was asked (comment #14) to create a test case. When the problem originally occurred I did not selected it intentionally. I did probably select the wrong Nvidia driver and thereby the 32-bit kernel was automatically selected. I did not receive any warning that I was going to install a 32-bit kernel. If you select the 32-bit Nvidia driver there is no description that it is a 32-bit version. This can only been seen in the technical data. The same is true for the bigsmp-kernel. If selected the following information is provided: “kernel-bigsmp - Kernel with PAE Support This kernel supports up to 64GB of main memory. It requires Physical Addressing Extensions (PAE), which were introduced with the Pentium Pro processor. “ I have a machine with 4Gb of memory and problems to load the network driver with this amount of memory. Why should I directly understand that selecting this package is 32-bit? In previous versions of SuSE there was a 64-bit big-smp kernel and I did need that kernel for installation of a system with 12Gb of memory. Therefor I was not surprised to see the big-smp kernel be selected. After re-booting and seeing some error messages and having a crashed system it took me quit a lot of time to find out I did install a 32-bit kernel. To summarize: I don't think many users will directly know that those packages break there system. At a 64-bit installation these packages will never work So hiding these packages or issue a clear waring will make (the new version of) SUSE even more user friendly. This approach was already suggested by Comment #12 From Andreas Hanke. I do not understand way the bug was closed and the suggestion by Andreas was not followed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.