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EAD

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Registered: 2006-03-11

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how to know what is my kernel version to the small deitals?

Hii, every time I update my sys to new kernel, when doing " uname -a" I get 2.6.16, but I want the full one include 2.6.16.x like the one there is now 2.6.16.9-1, How can I get this number?
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AndyRTR

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Registered: 2005-10-07

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Re: how to know what is my kernel version to the small deitals?

pacman -Qi kernel26 ;-)

EAD

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Re: how to know what is my kernel version to the small deitals?

pacman -Qi kernel26 ;-)

amm isn't there other way?
if I am working on other linux distro?

user

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Registered: 2006-03-29

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Re: how to know what is my kernel version to the small deitals?

pacman -Qi kernel26 ;-)

amm isn't there other way?
if I am working on other linux distro?

Most distro will show the detail number.

here is mine on arch 0.7.1

Linux arch 2.6.16.1 #7 PREEMPT Tue Apr 4 19:45:37 XXX 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

"#7" means that i had custom kernel compile 7 times.

PS: updated

uname -a
Linux arch 2.6.17-rc2-git6 #0 PREEMPT Tue Apr 25 17:02:37 XXX 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

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ralvez

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Registered: 2005-12-06

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Re: how to know what is my kernel version to the small deitals?

As far as I know all Linux dist. will respond to : cat /proc/version

Hope this helps.

Rick

stavrosg

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Registered: 2005-05-01

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Re: how to know what is my kernel version to the small deitals?

The official PKGBUILDs drop the 'detail' number, because then all other drivers that depend on the kernel will also need recompiling, which isn't necessary since the API (should be) stable.