Iain Buchanan wrote on 02/06/06 02:55: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 20:28 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >> 3) A vaguely related item... will it make any noticable difference if >>I rebuild my kernel with gcc.3.4.5 and reboot at the end of the process? >>I may as well upgrade the entire system.
> If you've updated the rest of your system to 3.4.5, then do the kernel > as well. Especially if you have proprietary modules, like vmware, > ati-drivers, etc; or extra modules like ndiswrapper. Make sure you > compile these modules after you compile your kernel, but before you > reboot. VMWare is a problem, it looks at uname, so you can only update it to use your latest kernel *after* a reboot. PITA. nvidia-kernel uses the kernel that symlink /usr/src/linux points to, so you can re-emerge ndvidia-kernel before a reboot. YMMV. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
