Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel v3.1.6-1.2 (cooker only)

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:09 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> > [email protected] writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >>
> >>   /me too now am happy with installing a 3.x kernel (did build the
> >> nvidia kernel driver cleanly).
> >>
> >>   Only issue is that I still keep a computer where I did not
> >> "rpm -e --nodeps linux-userspace-headers" and apparently should
> >> be a rpm issue. Maybe if removing the epoch it would work...
> >
> > Well, I added the epoch previously otherwise urpmi still wanted to
> > install linux-userpsace-headers after installing kernel-headers on 2011.
> >
> > And AFAIK it works fine on 2011.
>
>   I think it is the same issue I had with texlive-* providing some
> tetex-* packages. The only solution was to actually remove the
> tetex-* packages from repositories (they were broken, unmaintained
> and not installable anyway), because apparently a provides of an
> existing package would not work. It had and still has those
> provides to not break build requires of existing packages...
>
>  BTW, I noticed the 2.6.39 kernel installed as updates for 2011
> has the same issue of 3.1.6-1.1 regarding to compiling kernel
> modules, due to missing linux/version.h, and may have the other
> drakx* issue (it does not boot in an i586 I saw being updated).
>
> > --
> >               Franck
>
> Paulo
>
>
Ok my dkms-fglrx problem was due to a older version of dkms installed .
Thanks to Franck that's fixed now.