Thank you Akemi, I had no idea that I could do this. For my video drivers I need kernel 3.4 or later. It seems from these sites that 3.0 and 3.8 is available - has anyone on the list had experience with this? How stable is SL 6.3 with kernel 3.8?
Thanks again, Bill >>> Akemi Yagi <[email protected]> 04/03/13 8:13 AM >>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 12:51 PM, William Chivers <[email protected]> wrote: > Alas my new notebook uses the dreaded NVIDIA Optimus technology. I have set > the BIOS to "Integrated" video but still SL with its ancient Linux kernel > spins the fan noisily and constantly. I am forced to look for a Linux distro > with a newer kernel - I am using Xubuntu at the moment which does not make > the fan noisy but is unstable compared with SL - one or two crash reports per > week etc. I might try Fedora with MATE next week. > > I hope to use SL again in the future but for now, how do I unsubscribe from > this list? > > Thanks, Bill If you wish to run SL with a newer kernel, look into ELRepo's kernel-ml (mainline kernel) [1] or kernel-lt (long-term kernel) [2]. Both kernels are from kernel.org. Akemi [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml [2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt
