On Friday 15 August 2003 06:16 am, himbA wrote:
Hi,
I started Yast update yesteday and it installed new k_athlon over the older (2.4.20-4GB-athlon) kernel from update site. After reboot uname -a shows:
Linux himba 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Wed Aug 6 18:27:52 UTC 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
I do a search for 'k_athlon' in Yast I can see that 2.4.20-100 is installed, but 2.4.20-38 is still being used!
How do you know that 2.4.20-38 is still being used. Just doing uname won't give you the exact rpm package its using. The version you had and the version you are using are essentially the same kernel ( 2.4.20-4GB) the only difference is SuSE probably made a few patches and updates for bugfixes. Uname will only give the "Official" version of the kernel which is an xx.xx.xx number. SuSE adds the -100 part on the end to show that they've modified it slightly for the kernel.org source. If rpm -a shows that 2.4.20-100 is installed it probably is.
also # rpm -q k_athlon k_athlon-2.4.20-100
May I also note that I have AMD Duron CPU and nvidia card and didn't install new driver like the warning in Yast install said. I can boot to X without upgrading nVidia package. (if thats got something to with the k_athlon kernel install)
regads, himba
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