On Monday 06 January 2003 20:30 pm, PL O'Smith wrote:
* On Monday 06 January 2003 05:04 pm, John wrote:
Okay, so to keep it all nice and simple, I download the k_athlon rpm, click on it in konqueror and kpackage pops up and I install it. Once it's installed, bring up a konsole, do mkinitrd *and* lilo, then reboot. Is this right? One more question about this...will I still have all my same old files and all that stuff? Settings, etc., in kde? Can I then on the first bootup after the install of the new kernel, log in as root and open Control Center->System->Kernel configurator and do any tweaking there? And if I 'can', do I need to do mkinitrd and lilo again before rebooting?
Thanks for all this info and help,
John
--====================== John, Let me interject something at this point. When you install the k_athlon kernel, you are not overwriting the k_deflt kernel you already had installed. You may not have known that or the others helping failed to point that out. What happens then is that you end up with two kernels instead of one and it's quite possible you will still be using the k_deflt the next time you boot. It only overwrites, if it is the same name/type kernel. You must remove the old kernel first then install the new to keep down any possible conflicts. Use "rpm -e k_deflt" to remove the original.
Patrick
Ack! Glad you told me that. Now I'm a little worried, but what the heck...I'll save whatever I can to that 'other' OS on the other partition (it's all I use it for anymore, that, and the only 3D game I play anymore), and give it a shot. I'd tried the other ways of installing a new(er) kernel, but there's 500 different people telling 500 different ways to do it (all the steps), and the SuSE 8.0 books are *different* from all of *those*! LOL So I figure I'll try this one last way, with the rpm, and hope for the best. If anyone's curious why I want to do this, well, first, I want my system to ber optimized for my athlon naturally, also, I just plain want to learn how to do it, along with hopes that it'll fix the sound on my system using the SBLive 5.1 I have. The problem with that is, if I play a .wav sound or file, the sound/music plays nice and loud through all 5 speakers, but if I play a music CD, it's super weak in the two rear speakers, and normal in the two front and the woofer. I've played with alsa and emu10k1 til I'm blue in the face, and just want my music to sound *good*, like the .wav sounds do. Soooo...hence the try at a newer kernel. Heh...sorry for such a long post to a simple thing. John