Kernel 2.6.24 -- gee that was fun...not!

[Paul Lemmons]

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Subject: Kernel 2.6.24 -- gee that was fun...not!
From: Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com>
Date: 03/14/2008 03:06 PM

> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:01:15 -0700
> Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> I had the 2.6.23 kernel and was able to boot from it but the 
>>>> kernel-headers had been replaced with the 2.6.24 version. In cleaning 
>>>> up that I had also cleaned up the kernel-devel packages (probably a 
>>>> mistake). Either way, though, to get the headers back in sync with the 
>>>> kernel I had to go out to the koji site.
> 
> This brings up an interesting question.  It doesn't look like livna
> keeps the "old" rpms for ATI and Nvidia drivers on their site after a new
> kernel version is released.
> 
> How can someone who is using ATI or Nvidia drivers from Livna revert to the
> previous kernel in that situation?
> 

I could not figure out a way to do it from livna. I wound up having to 
download from nvidia and build it. It is not hard, pretty straight 
forward, in fact. It just means that I have to do this by hand every 
time I upgrade the kernel. Once they get the bugs ironed of the latest 
kernel I will go back to livna.
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