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DarksideEE7

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From: Arkansas, United States

Registered: 2009-06-06

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Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

I would like to test out 2.6.32-1 from [testing] to see if my wifi behaves better, so I enabled the teseting repo in pacman.conf. 

What's the best way to test?  I know I will add a 3rd kernel line to menu.lst for GRUB, but what is the best way to resolve the dependencies of the new kernel, etc.?
Should I just download the package from the AUR and install manually, or what?
Thanks in advance.

Allan

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Re: Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

You will not need to add another line in grub.  It will upgrade your kernel like any other kernel update.  Just "pacman -Syu" and reboot.

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DarksideEE7

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From: Arkansas, United States

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Re: Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

You will not need to add another line in grub.  It will upgrade your kernel like any other kernel update.  Just "pacman -Syu" and reboot.

I see.  I guess I overthought it, LOL.  So what about any conflicting dependencies, such as Virtualbox kernel module, etc.?  To roll back is it as simple as:
commenting out [testing] in pacman.conf
sudo pacman -Scc
sudo pacman -Syu
reboot
?

EDIT:

Yea I knew it would kick out a dependency problem for vboxdrv:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: virtualbox-modules: requires kernel26<2.6.32

Should I just ignore dependencies and go on?  If so, I'm not sure how to do that with pacman...

Last edited by DarksideEE7 (2009-12-15 04:42:27)

lucke

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Re: Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

You need to enable community-testing if you want virtualbox for 2.6.32.

You downgrade by commenting out testing repos and issuing pacman -Suu.

DarksideEE7

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From: Arkansas, United States

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Re: Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

All right, that's exactly what I needed to know.  Thanks a million.

lucke

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Re: Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

It's a good idea to install kernel26-lts and keep it as a backup kernel.

DarksideEE7

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Re: Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

Looks good so far, my OSD and fan monitor on my eeepc doesn't work anymore.  Oh well, small price to pay for good wifi I suppose (if it does indeed make it better.)

lustikus

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Registered: 2009-11-10

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Re: Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

how long does it usually take for a new kernel to make it from testing to stable?

DarksideEE7

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From: Arkansas, United States

Registered: 2009-06-06

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Re: Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

how long does it usually take for a new kernel to make it from testing to stable?

I'm not sure, hopefully someone else can shed some light.  I'm going to wait for the official release because many of my eeepc controls/features weren't working. 
Surprisingly I was getting a 70/70 signal strength via iwconfig.......which is normally unheard of.

combuster

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Re: Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

There are no rules - but I've noticed that it's usually 20-30 days after initial release (depends on how many bug reports are sent)

DarksideEE7

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Re: Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

Well I'm not sure why, but when I upgraded both my i686 and x86_64 systems today I downloaded and installed the  kernel headers for 2.6.32, but not the kernel itself......uname -a still shows 2.6.31. 
What's up with that?

lucke

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Re: Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

kernel-headers package doesn't have much in common with kernel26 package. Starting with 2.6.32, every kernel should have its separate kernel26-headers package (kernel26 2.6.32 and kernel26-headers 2.6.32 are still in the testing repo).

fmjrey

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Registered: 2009-08-19

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Re: Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

Why is kernel-headers 2.6.32 in core but not kernel 2.6.32?
As a result pacman -Syu wants to upgrade my headers but not the kernel.
Is that good?

Last edited by fmjrey (2009-12-16 14:36:27)

Mr.Elendig

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Re: Testing kernel 2.6.32-1

The kernel-headers package is not what you think it is. You are confusing it with the new kernel26-headers package introduced with .32. Please read -> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=49105

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2009-12-16 15:02:11)

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