My system runs fine with kernel-default but kernel-vanilla ruins the display. It does not recognize my second monitor and limits the working monitor to 800x600. An annoyance to me is the fact the kernel-vanilla is pre-selected at boot. So, I cannot have an unattended reboot and load kernel-default.
How can I get rid of the troublesome kernel-vanilla variants?
It’s not installed here at all. You should be able to just remove it if you have kernel-default selected.
What do you have installed?
rpm -qa | grep kernel- | sort
After seeing @hendersj post, I figured it was safe to use yast to remove the vanilla versions. After doing that, I had no issues. There are lots of kernel related files that remain. Here they are:
kernel-default-6.19.10-1.2.x86_64
kernel-default-6.19.11-1.1.x86_64
kernel-default-devel-6.19.10-1.2.x86_64
kernel-default-devel-6.19.11-1.1.x86_64
kernel-devel-6.19.10-1.2.noarch
kernel-devel-6.19.11-1.1.noarch
kernel-devel-6.19.9-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-all-20250206-1.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-amdgpu-20260327-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-ath10k-20260206-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-ath11k-20260327-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-ath12k-20260317-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-atheros-20250206-2.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-bluetooth-20260327-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-bnx2-20250627-1.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-brcm-20250623-2.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-chelsio-20250627-1.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-dpaa2-20250206-2.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-i915-20260402-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-intel-20260331-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-iwlwifi-20260331-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-liquidio-20250206-2.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-marvell-20250206-2.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-media-20260331-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-mediatek-20260317-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-mellanox-20260110-1.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-mwifiex-20250206-2.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-network-20260327-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-nfp-20250206-2.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-nvidia-20251018-1.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-platform-20260305-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-prestera-20250206-2.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-qcom-20260402-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-qlogic-20250926-1.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-radeon-20250627-1.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-realtek-20260214-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-serial-20260327-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-sound-20260331-1.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-ti-20250206-2.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-ueagle-20251004-1.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-usb-network-20250717-1.2.noarch
kernel-macros-6.19.11-1.1.noarch
python311-ipykernel-6.31.0-2.3.noarch
python313-ipykernel-6.31.0-2.3.noarch
Looks about right to me.
kernel-vanilla is not installed by default (not to my knowledge, I’ve never had it installed), and isn’t usually required.
Glad your system is fine now. 