From: Sascha Wessels (swessels_at_novell.com)
Date: Fri Nov 11 2005 - 09:41:46 CET
From: Sascha Wessels <swessels@novell.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:41:46 +0100 Message-Id: <200511110941.46930.swessels@novell.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Ancient Help
Hi,
On Thursday 10 November 2005 18:37, Brad Shelton wrote:
> I finally decided to stop hassling with the desktop versions for my
> servers. Yea!
>
> I never did figure out the "Driver Update Disk" thing, but got it to
> work for the install.
>
> Now, when I do updates I have to skip the kernel update because it
> doesn't convert the RAID controller modules to allow for rebooting to
> the new kernel.
>
> Could someone point me to an SDB article or some such which gives clues
> to those such as me? A how-to on how to use the update disk to update
> the kernel?
>
> Any help appreciated....
What kind of driver are you referring to? Some IHVs offer driver for SLES9
kernel but they can only be used with a certain kernel and won't simply work
with other releases.
A good example is the NVIDIA driver. If you download and install this one your
machine, after the next kernel update X won't start until you run the
installer again (of course there are possibilities to fetch the driver also
with YOU). But as long as you go with a manual compilation/installation you
will face this issue.
If the driver you are using is supplied with our kernel, we can check what is
going on. If your IHV provided it to you, you may check with him what options
you have.
Having the latest kernel installed is necessary due to security fixes and
improvements.
regards,
-- Sascha Andree Wessels, Technical Support Engineer Novell EMEA Services Center, Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise / http://www.novell.com/open --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-sles-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-sles-e-help@suse.com
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