On Sunday 08 November 2009 07:57:01 Basil Chupin wrote:
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Kernel clarification Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:37:08 +1100 From: Basil Chupin
To: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org On 08/11/09 06:54, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Saturday 07 November 2009 03:06:19 Basil Chupin wrote:
Forgot to mention: the CPU is AMD XP 3200+, 1.5GB RAM, 2x 500GB HDs,
The desktop kernel needs AFAIR PAE support, I'm not sure your CPU has it - that might be the reason for the installation of the default one.
In general: kernel-desktop runs on "newer" hardware only, kernel-default runs also on some older,
Andreas
Thanks for this Andreas, but then the puzzlement deepens because in 11.1 the pae kernel was installed on my computer. See the attached menu.lst.
I suggest to open a bugreport to get this resolved, I'm surprised as well but don't know everything ;).
I don't have earlier versions of oS installed on HDs so cannot check but I seem to recall the the pae kernel was also installed by at least one other earlier version of oS.
I also remember "fiddling" with a copy of the kernel in 11.1 to compile my own which had the (?some of the) qualities now in the desktop kernel eg,the Timer Frequency set to 1000Hz.
Am I wrong or isn't it the situation that if the kernel is compiled with parameters selected but which, in fact, are not available in the CPU then the kernel still does its job and uses those which ARE available? That is, it doesn't have a hernia, throw up its hands and runs off screaming into the distance :-) .
This works in some cases but not everywhere AFAIK, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126