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GoofballJM1
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 Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:21 am Post subject: Noob: How on earth do I upgrade my kernel? Solved! |
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How on earth do I upgrade my kernel? Do I use the howto in the gentoo installation documentation? What other things do I need to do? How do I emerge the newer kernel? When I do an emerge gentoo-dev-sources it just gives me the already installed kernel. I haven't found anything in these forums or on gentoo.org. Is there anything I need to be aware of?
I have 2.6.3-r1 and can't get Alsa to work worth a darn, so I am looking to using 2.6.4 or higher to see if that can fix my problem (seeing others with the same problem it seemed to help).
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dvc5
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| Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:27 am Post subject: Re: Noob: How on earth do I upgrade my kernel? |
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| GoofballJM1 wrote: | How on earth do I upgrade my kernel? Do I use the howto in the gentoo installation documentation? What other things do I need to do? How do I emerge the newer kernel? When I do an emerge gentoo-dev-sources it just gives me the already installed kernel. I haven't found anything in these forums or on gentoo.org. Is there anything I need to be aware of?
I have 2.6.3-r1 and can't get Alsa to work worth a darn, so I am looking to using 2.6.4 or higher to see if that can fix my problem (seeing others with the same problem it seemed to help). |
That is the latest *stable* kernel in the portage tree for gentoo-dev-sources. Generally it is bad practice to "jump the gun" with packages, but if you like, you can simply:
| Code: | | emerge /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.4.ebuild |
or any other ebuild in that folder to emerge a specific kernel you want.
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pandaxiongmao
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| Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:34 am Post subject: Re: Noob: How on earth do I upgrade my kernel? |
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| GoofballJM1 wrote: |
I have 2.6.3-r1 and can't get Alsa to work worth a darn, so I am looking to using 2.6.4 or higher to see if that can fix my problem (seeing others with the same problem it seemed to help).
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Try OSS, instead of ALSA.
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GoofballJM1
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| Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:43 pm Post subject: Yeay!! |
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Thanks everyone for pointing me in the right direction. I finally got alsa working without freaking out. I upgraded my Kernel to 2.6.4 and it worked on the first boot! I am soooooo happy! Much thanks to all!  |
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