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

2012/1/3 Franck Bui <[email protected]>:
> [email protected] writes:
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>>> [email protected] writes:
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>>> [...]
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>>>>   /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...
>
> I think we could remove the linux-userpsace-headers package as well,
> this shouldn't hurt.
>
>>   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,
>
> Yes.
>
> That wasn't an issue previously but since the dkms package update, it
> is.
>
>> and may have the other drakx* issue (it does not boot in an i586 I saw
>> being updated).
>
> I need to see what's happening exactly here.
>
> Thanks.
> --
>                Franck
>

Some users sad on enable PAE. Some processor, like Centrino M not work
with enabled PAE support. In older (from tmb) Mandriva kernel PAE (and
HIGHMEM64) option was disabled for 32-bit kernels. May we need do this
in new kernel or make another (desktop-nopae) packages?

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