Hi,

I am running this SUSE 11.1 RC1 version now. Apart from the problems I described in my previous thread, it is running very well. The system upgraded to kernel 2.6.27.7-8-default x86_64 but the kernel - source is one version behind. Now I am having the "New software update available " message all the time in the tool bar. When i run this upgrade it says that this is a dummy kernel. What is this and how to remove it from updates?

I had the same problem when trying to install new,just released, Creative labs source code for X-Fi Pro Sound Card.

Before it would successfully compile, because it threw up dummy kernel etc. I decided to get a proper kernel this I did as follows

zypper dup

This updates kerel and you will end up with what was your true kernel 2.26.27.4 and I guess you will find all is well. Any knew kernel will be available on Thursday 18th Dec. if they are on time.

My sound card works treat - I'm really chuffed and kernel problem solved this is latest factory released kernel.

Thnks hawkshead,

I reinstalled SUSE 11.1.RC1 and now I get no "dummy kernel" upgrade message. The kernel is 2.6.27.7.4 and so is kernel-source.

Here is what I did next

lspci -nv
this tells you what creative labs subsystem device code to use

now edit ctdrv.h header file which is in the untarred folder (directory)

Substitute the last hexadecimal code eg 0x0041 with the hex code you see after lspci -nv result

eg. define PCI_SUBSYS_CREATIVE_SB0880 0x0041 with 0x002c My card is 0x002c

make clean

make
make install

re run
lspci -nv

You should now see something like this:-
01:00.0 0401: 1102:0005
Subsystem: 1102:002c
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
I/O ports at ec00 [size=32]
Memory at fbe00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Memory at f4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Kernel driver in use: CTALSA
Kernel modules: ctxfi

If ctxfi is shown as kernel modules as above then issue command as root

modprobe ctxfi

then check using

aplay -l which card is which if all goes well
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 0: X-Fi 20k1 [WaveOut/WaveIn]
Subdevices: 8/8

Hope this is of some help I made no notes when I did all this but have cobbled some together now - the more I remember the more notes I will make

The Code from Creative labs works in both Suse11.0 and 11.1 rc1 the main thing is kernel source must be present and match current kernel

The dummy kernel seems to be SUSE telling us that it is not the final thing. New 11.1 release is out from Thursday 18 Dec