Hi, Eli, >So >obviously there *are* updates to the kernel made by yum, but >somehow >without changing the kernel version.
How many images do you have under /boot ? isn't it three? ( ls /boot/vm*) ? and how many entries in grub.conf ? In case you have enough time for installation , consider Fedora 13 (Fedora 14, BTW, should be available in 2.11.10) Rgs, Rami Rosen On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 19 September 2010 13:12:26 Eli Billauer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> As some of you may recall, I took the unbelievable step of upgrading to >> Fedora 12 a few months ago, and since then I've been adapting myself to >> the concept of yum keeping track of the software on my computer and not >> myself untarring-compiling-make install. Which is fine so far. >> >> >> But now it comes to kernel. My view is still that you're not a man >> unless you're running a kernel you've compiled yourself. Besides, there >> are some sporadic crashes, which seem to be related to the Radeon >> graphics card. And the old saying when that happens is: Upgrade your >> kernel. >> >> >> I checked what happens down in /usr/src/kernels just to find out, that >> there are three kernels installed, all of which are 2.6.32-XX-XXX. So >> obviously there *are* updates to the kernel made by yum, but somehow >> without changing the kernel version. >> >> >> So what do you say? Should I download, compile and install the latest >> vanilla kernel, or should I rely on what I get from the repository? It's >> not like there is any problem compiling modules on the existing kernel, >> so it all boils down to whether the updated vanilla kernel is better >> than what yum updates me with. > > Well, from what I was told Red Hat does not provide support for systems that > don't run their distribution kernels, so if you report bugs, you'll need to > reproduce them with the distribution kernels. Of course, if the system crash > for you and you believe the kernel is at fault, then you can try upgrading it. > Which driver for the ATI Radeon cards are you using? I had the most luck with > the open-source "radeon" driver. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > My Favourite FOSS - http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/favourite/ > > <rindolf> She's a hot chick. But she smokes. > <go|dfish> She can smoke as long as she's smokin'. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > [email protected] > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux > _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
