Kernel upgrade in Suse 9.1

belbono · 06-03-2004, 03:11 PM

hi

I want to upgrade the standart kerlen in Suse 9.1

it is enaugh to download the newest patch for the 2.6 kernel from kernel.org, patch the installed sources of my 2.6.4 suse kernel, and make a "make install" ?

or are the some special problems I have to take care of ?

thx

bel

equinox · 06-03-2004, 04:14 PM

which kernel would you like? and what are your reasons for upgrading your kernel?

belbono · 06-03-2004, 05:09 PM

what i want is the newest kernel version .... i believe a new version brings improvements und fixes ... why not use them

and i hope to fix a problem with the graphics driver after upgrading

DiWi · 06-04-2004, 04:10 AM

Do you allready installed the kernel sources?
But anyway, SuSE did some changes to the kernel sources and probably the patch will fail. Therefore download the complete source.
For configuration, you need at least the ncurses-devel package installed to run make menueconfig. In addition, if you're using SuSE 9.1 personal edition, neither gcc, make nor ncurses-devel is part of the distribution. You need to download the from suses ftp-server.

Before you do the install, see my yesterdays posting on what you need to do before.

Dirk

belbono · 06-04-2004, 05:29 AM

ok

but this isn´t my first "own kernel"

but the problem of the ?vanilla? (from kernel.org) kernels was to get my hardware working....so this time i want to try to use my 2.6.4 suse kernel sources and patch it with a vanilla patch

...but you say patching might fail .. ok then...does suse provide patches ? or just full sources ?

or are there patches made from users that do the same like a new suse sourcepaket ?

bel

beyond_2000 · 06-04-2004, 07:57 AM

It seems hard to update kernel of SuSE, I faild for several times. It's weird.
I think the suse's kernel cannot be updated without official kernel path.

belbono · 06-04-2004, 09:53 AM

ok thats helpfull

...and what are patches ?

i found some files in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/src/

....for me kernel-default-2.6.4-54.5.nosrc.rpm is interesting

...its just 180 kb ... is that what i want ?

i think so