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Hi

I have just moved to tumbleweed and I have a few questions.
When 12.1 comes out do I just need to perform zypper update to upgrade to it?
I saw that it downloaded kernel version 2.6.39 yet after a reboot I still find myself in 2.6.37 why?
I also have the latest ATI drivers which have failed to install (this one is not a big deal, I have had this before, I was just wondering whether it was tied together with the kernels or something, ATI driver version 11.6)

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It’s hard to say if Tumbleweed will be equal to 12.1 when it’s released, but it should be close. And yes, you can update using zypper.

I saw that it downloaded kernel version 2.6.39 yet after a reboot I still find myself in 2.6.37 why?
Either you have two kernels installed or the 2.6.39 kernel wasn’t installed. You can check what you have by typing this in a terminal:

rpm -qa | grep kernel

Possibly another package wasn’t available or wasn’t chosen by you to be installed that the 2.6.39 kernel needed.

I also have the latest ATI drivers which have failed to install (this one is not a big deal, I have had this before, I was just wondering whether it was tied together with the kernels or something, ATI driver version 11.6)
I use nvidia so I can’t help you with ATI.

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the output I get with that command is

kernel-devel-2.6.39.1-33.1.noarch
kernel-default-devel-2.6.39.1-33.1.x86_64
kernel-desktop-2.6.37.6-0.5.1.x86_64
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.39.1-33.1.x86_64
nfs-kernel-server-1.2.3-11.14.1.x86_64
kernel-firmware-2.6.38-34.2.noarch
kernel-syms-2.6.39.1-33.1.x86_64
kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.39.1-33.1.x86_64
kernel-source-2.6.39.1-33.1.noarch

So how do I switch to 2.6.39?

So I have read the page regarding tumbleweed and the only difference I saw from the normal releases was that it is a rolling release of a stable branch, is that correct?

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I’m not sure what happened. Go ahead and do:

zypper up kernel-desktop

That should do it or you’ll get a message telling you there is a problem. If so post back your problem here. Your definition of Tumbleweed is correct.

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Thanks man that worked :slight_smile: