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Rajat Gujral schreef: |
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> hi |
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> i am a newbie in gentoo and for the first time i tried to upgrade my |
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> kernel from 2.6.12-r6 to 2.6.12-r10 , but the kernel was not upgraded |
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When you say you tried to upgrade your kernel, what do you mean to say |
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that you did? |
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If you did something like |
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emerge -uav gentoo-sources |
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that doesn't 'upgrade your kernel', it downloads and extracts a newer |
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kernel to /usr/src, where you would then have to configure, compile, and |
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install it, either manually, or using genkernel. After which, you would |
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possibly need to edit your bootloader config files (grub.conf or |
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lilo.conf), to inform the bootloader that a new kernel was available. |
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If you didn't do any of these things, then you haven't upgraded your |
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kernel-- Gentoo is not a binary distro where you just download and |
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replace the previous kernel binary with a new one, as you would in |
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Mandrake or SuSE or Fedora Core. |
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> Now when i boot my system with the older kernel i am not able to |
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> start KDE .. Whenever i write startx on the terminal i get the |
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> message |
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> Using vt 7 |
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> Symbol __glXgetActiveScreen from module |
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> /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! |
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What video card do you have? If an ATI or nVidia card using the |
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proprietary drivers, you would need to re-emerge those drivers against |
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the new kernel when upgrading. |
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Are you sure you're booting to the older kernel? After booting, and |
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logging in, don't type startx, but instead |
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uname -a |
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What kernel does it report? |
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HTH, |
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Holly |
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