John,

Fortunately, there is a kernel available so I do not need to recompile one.
I am sure that recompiling the kernel myself is good for my soul, but
unfortunately I have other things that are higher priority like making
videos, and the one time I tried I got lots of build errors.  I do use the
nVidia drivers as blender needs open gl or something and  the free drivers
do not do this, but this means that I rebuild the drivers each time I
upgrade the kernel.

On 19/07/07, John Haiducek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Jul 17, 2007, at 11:13, Martin Ellison wrote:

> There is a work-around. One needs to install another kernel. This
> will probably break other things eg kernel modules. It's all pretty
> horrible.

Compiling a new kernel doesn't overwrite the old kernel or its
modules, and unless you have some commercial binary kernel modules
(like ATI or NVidia drivers or something) you should be able to
compile all your existing modules in the new kernel so there's little
that would break.

If you've never compiled your own kernel, I humbly suggest you dive
in and try it. It's a lot of work, but it's good for you, and the
kernel sources usually come with some nifty user-friendly tools so
you will probably be able to do it without editing any config files
or anything.

John Haiducek

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