Old kernel RPMS

Bob Gustafson bobgus at rcn.com
Sun Mar 13 20:08:45 UTC 2005


>On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 09:52 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 03:39 -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
>>
>> > suspects are kernel and gcc4 compiler (since I remember 6629 used to
>> > work at some point).
>>
>> and... the driver.
>
>Well, the driver stayed the same, while the kernel changed, and made the
>driver stop working. As far as I'm concerned, the kernel broke it.
>Whether the fault is in the kernel, or driver, the end result is the
>same - it doesn't work anymore, and I have to downgrade to
>a kernel compatible with the nvidia driver (at least for running
>OpenGL).
>
>--
>Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2 at cornell.edu>
>Cornell University
>
>--

The release and release-update channels still have kernels made with gcc-3.4

That may be too far back for you though.

BobG




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