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tricky

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Registered: 2009-03-31

Posts: 65

Can I go back to previous Kernel?

Hi,

Since updating to the new kernel a couple of days ago my sound keeps stuttering and clicking comes from the speakers. tried alsa, tried pulse, tried oss.
ossv4 was the worst as it made the system crash. I tried oss from repo and aur - same problem.
Closed vlc and the whole system blacked out!. Plus ossxmix would not even start up.

It might be a bug but I need sound now, I cant wait for a kernel that works to be released.

With the previous kernel I was happily using alsa.
Well it seems I am not going to be able to resolve the sound issue. I have posted on here and followed the wiki.
My question is can I do like a transplant, take out the new kernal and implant the old one in it's place without re-installing Arch?. I want to try and fix this without a re-install.

Advice appreciated.

SanskritFritz

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 1,924

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Re: Can I go back to previous Kernel?

Simply start the fallback kernel from the grub menu.
Otherwise the older packages are stored in
/var/cache/pacman/pkg
just
sudo pacman -U kernel26-2.6.29.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

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rusty99

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Registered: 2009-03-18

Posts: 253

Re: Can I go back to previous Kernel?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages may also help.

Bogart

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From: Madrid, Spain

Registered: 2005-06-22

Posts: 272

Re: Can I go back to previous Kernel?

Also before downgrading you might want to try to run alsaconf to see if just with that you can solve the problem (just run the command "alsaconf" as root).

u_no_hu

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 453

Re: Can I go back to previous Kernel?

Simply start the fallback kernel from the grub menu.
Otherwise the older packages are stored in
/var/cache/pacman/pkg
just
sudo pacman -U kernel26-2.6.29.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

Fallback kernel is not the old kernel.

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SanskritFritz

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 1,924

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Re: Can I go back to previous Kernel?

Fallback kernel is not the old kernel.

Oops, you're right, I didn't know that, thanks for the correction.

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