i need to install a kernel -source to install my ati drivers.
the only one i can find is for suse i586.
i am sure i installed suse personal edition i386.
if i install the i586 rpm am i going to destroy my computer?
Will the i586 work
Do ya know where i can find the right kernel-source?

kevin@x1-6-00-07-e9-6d-24-c0:~> uname -r
2.6.5-7.104-default
kevin@x1-6-00-07-e9-6d-24-c0:~>

thanx

As far as I know all those i86 things are like the same. I have a lot of i386 but i686 as well. It's still for intel architecture. BTW if it doesn't work you can just uninstall it right? One package that you don't have to run (as in run a program) but it's just there on your system to be looked at by the driver installation won't break your complete system. Only thing that could happen is that your driver still won't work.

edit: I've yet to see something that can break the complete system . The command line seems to work a lot of the time and you can get help with it easily

The kernel source is exactly the same regardless of which processor you are using.

If you ever compile the kernel, one of the first things you do is to choose the processor version, which selects out anything not relevant to the given processor as well as telling the compiler which CPU to make code for.

x86 things are not the same. Anything compiled for a 386 will work on a 586 — but not the other way around. And messing up the kernel is one of the few things that can really leave your computer in a mess.

If you've got the time, it may be worth installing the latest kernel source from www.kernel.org and compiling it; that way you'll know that you're running the latest kernel and that the kernel source version matches the installed kernel. Instructions can be found at http://www.projektfarm.com/en/suppor...l_compile.html (for Debian; you'll find more instructions through Google).