Using the 2.6.38.4 Kernel in /testing

marnold · 05-16-2011, 06:37 PM

Just a quick question: can I safely install the 2.6.38.4 kernel in /testing and not screw up any other part of my Slackware64 13.37 installation? Should I install the kernel headers or leave the default ones since that's what glibc was compiled against? Obviously I'd need to update lilo.conf as well as run lilo itself.

The reason I ask is because I'm having suspend/resume problems on my laptop (worked fine with 13.1) and I wanted to see if a kernel driver was the issue.

TobiSGD · 05-16-2011, 07:01 PM

Running 2.6.38.6 (and before that 2.6.38.4) on my workstation without problems. Of course you have to adapt your lilo.conf and run lilo.
I didn't change anything to the kernel-headers, I just changed the link /usr/src/linux to point to the new kernel source.