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! 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 -- This €-mail was Kmailed.
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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On Friday 15 August 2003 11:16, 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! 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
What makes you think you are still on build 38? I thought that the result from uname -a did not specifiy as far as build numbers, and the -4GB etc. was correct for the -100 build too. I could be wrong. I get the same result from uname -a and am definitely on the new kernel. As far as the nVidia drivers go, when I upgraded I could still get into X fine, but the hardware acceleration was off (if you use YOU to update it does all this for you) and that is what you need to upgrade the nVidia drivers for. If you do not mind not having hardware acceleration I guess it does not matter! There is some fiddling to get them to work, see other posts on the list. Yours -- Ray
himbA wrote:
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
The important piece of information here is the kernel build date.
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! also # rpm -q k_athlon k_athlon-2.4.20-100
Do rpm -qi k_athlon and check the build date against the uname -a output. Unless you have not rebuilt your kernel then I bet you do indeed have the latest kernel. Regards, Martti Laaksonen
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