Hello,
Am running suse 12.1(KDE 4.8.0) with ATI graphics. I am interested in upgrading kernel to 3.2.2 . How do i do that ? and are there any known issues that could trouble my regular usage ?
Thanks.
Hi,
> hrudaireddy wrote:
> Am running suse 12.1(KDE 4.8.0) with ATI graphics. I am
> interested in upgrading kernel to 3.2.2 . How do i do that ? and are
> there any known issues that could trouble my regular usage ?
I do run 3.2.2-5 on an openSUSE-12.1 (64bit MBP).
I simply upgraded by using the tumbleweed-Repository, but hit two issues:
1.) the boot loader wasn’t adjusted as expected at two minor kernel
upgrades. I ended up with an empty menu which was a horror, because my MBP
still has a bug in the firmware so that my keyboard does not work with an
empty grub menu. You might want to tripple check and backup your grub
configuration too.
2.) I had to install the proprietary graphics driver for my nvidia card
manually, since there is no precompiled rpm version for tumbleweed provided
by nvidia (understandable). I did that earlier, but was quite happy that I
did not had to do that for the last couple of years, since “things just
worked”. This means I fall back to a cli login and have to reinstall the
driver after each minor kernel update. Annoying but not really a problem.
Apart from that: the kernel works, no problems so far.
Note: I use an nvidia graphics card, I could imagine things are similar
using an ati card.
arkascha
I do run 3.2.2-5 on an openSUSE-12.1 (64bit MBP).
I simply upgraded by using the tumbleweed-Repository, but hit two issues:
1.) the boot loader wasn’t adjusted as expected at two minor kernel
upgrades. I ended up with an empty menu which was a horror, because my MBP
still has a bug in the firmware so that my keyboard does not work with an
empty grub menu. You might want to tripple check and backup your grub
configuration too.
My machine is dell inspiron n 5010, so i hope that i might not face that keyboard issue 
2.) I had to install the proprietary graphics driver for my nvidia card
manually, since there is no precompiled rpm version for tumbleweed provided
by nvidia (understandable). I did that earlier, but was quite happy that I
did not had to do that for the last couple of years, since “things just
worked”. This means I fall back to a cli login and have to reinstall the
driver after each minor kernel update. Annoying but not really a problem.
Even i had to deal with graphic drivers after every minor kernel upgrade and yeah, that’s really annoying.
Apart from that: the kernel works, no problems so far.
Note: I use an nvidia graphics card, I could imagine things are similar
using an ati card.
Thank you for your time
Help !!!
linux-kngr:/home/hrudai # zypper dup --from Tumbleweed
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Computing distribution upgrade…
Problem: hdjmod-kmp-desktop-1.28_k3.1.0_1.1-5.1.2.x86_64 requires ksym(desktop:__init_waitqueue_head) = e174aa7, but this requirement cannot be provided
uninstallable providers: kernel-desktop-base-3.1.9-1.4.1.i586[Updates-for-openSUSE-12.1-12.1-1.4]
kernel-desktop-base-3.1.9-1.4.1.x86_64[Updates-for-openSUSE-12.1-12.1-1.4]
kernel-desktop-3.1.0-1.2.1.i586[repo-oss]
kernel-desktop-base-3.1.0-1.2.1.i586[repo-oss]
kernel-desktop-devel-3.1.0-1.2.1.i586[repo-oss]
kernel-desktop-3.1.0-1.2.1.x86_64[repo-oss]
kernel-desktop-base-3.1.0-1.2.1.x86_64[repo-oss]
kernel-desktop-devel-3.1.0-1.2.1.x86_64[repo-oss]
Solution 1: deinstallation of hdjmod-kmp-desktop-1.28_k3.1.0_1.1-5.1.2.x86_64
Solution 2: keep obsolete kernel-desktop-3.1.9-1.4.1.x86_64
Solution 3: keep obsolete kernel-desktop-3.1.9-1.4.1.x86_64
Solution 4: keep obsolete kernel-desktop-3.1.9-1.4.1.x86_64
Solution 5: keep obsolete kernel-desktop-3.1.9-1.4.1.x86_64
Solution 6: break hdjmod-kmp-desktop by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/4/5/6/c] (c):