On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Bob S <911@pasco.org> 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org