 | | | Upgrading Kernel? | Upgrading Kernel? 2002-06-30 - By Vincent
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I just made my 3rd purchase of redhat.
I began with 6.1 and then 6.2 and now 7.3.
As happy as i am with redhat, i do have some concerns and question about
kernel upgrades.
1) first of all, i updated my default kernel to 2.4.18-5 (i think) but
then my nvidia drivers wouldnt compile for it anymore. It seems thatit
cannot "stat " some NVidia module or something like that. I have the
.src.rpms from the NVidia website which includes the kernel package and
the GLX package.
2) so.... i decided to revert back to the default kernel that comes with
the CD. But i saw that there was a .athlon.rpm and since i 'm running an
athlon processor i decided to install that one. I rpm -Uv it but when
my system starts up it still says i686. Is that normal?
3) i want to be able to update my kernel whenever i wish... but.... the
configuration is so overwhelming. where can i get the default
configuration for the redhat kernel and just load it when i do my "make
xconfig "? That way i retain all the default settings. would that work?
or are there certain configurations in the redhat kernels that are not
compatible with kernels i would download from kernel.org?
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