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