On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 20:31 +0100, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
On 01/12/2011 08:00 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
In the mean time, you may also want to add:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_11.3/
as a repository and install the latest kernel from there. The Kernel:/HEAD repo generally has reliable kernels and I have used them since 11.3 was released to get around an atheros bug in 2.6.34.
define reliable for who ; for what. IMHO it is better to stay with the official updates if one is new to Linux. You may find it useful but that does not mean it is for someone else also.
Togan
Hi, I haven't been able to reply to this thread for a while because I was away from home for work. Just before I left I was able to get the computer working properly again, and haven't messed with the kernel upgrade since as I have a newsletter to put out and don't want to interfere with that by trying another kernel upgrade. The way that I got the computer to work properly was really a fluke. I hadn't been able to get konsole to display on the desktop, nor could I get yast to display either, for several days. I tried multiple times to get konsole to start, and after maybe 10 reboots and multiple tries to start konsole, it displayed on the desktop. Then I typed in yast2 as superuser, and got yast to display. I got software management to display in yast, then typed kernel in the search box. I found that for no good reason, kernel-default-devel had downgraded from 2.6.37 to 2.6.34. I hadn't applied that in yast when I tried to upgrade the kernel. That was the problem, I think. I downgraded kernel-default, kernel-default-devel, kernel-devel, and kernel-source to version 2.6.34 with yast, and now everything works again. For what its worth, I did have the kernel:Head repository installed prior to David Rankin's suggestion. I haven't found it to be a problem. I have checked and zypper wants to upgrade all the kernel programs again. I haven't tried the changes yet as I don't want to chance messing up the operating system again until I have time to play with it if it goes awry. That is for the near future. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org