How do I downgrade kernel?

[brent_weaver]

I am not 100% sure of what version I want. I am motivated to do this by the fact that I cannot get my sound card to work in 2.6.29-r5. I understand from various forums that there are known bugs in this kernel, so I thought that it may work if I downgrade

I am sooo bummed w/ gentoo these days!
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Brent Weaver

[kevstar31]

get the kernel source you need here:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/
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[John R. Graham]

Although it's not too hard, that's not really the easy way or the Gentoo way. Use equery to see the kernels that are in the Portage tree, like so:

[szczerb]

Why the symlink flag? Don't you prefer to use eselect? Also there is a shorter atom syntax, like:

[John R. Graham]

All valid points. I showed it the way I would do it, which is to double click on the kernel that was shown by equery, thus marking it (and incidentally including the category), then typing <Copy>emerge -v =<Paste><Enter>". Just from a perspective of user interface manipulation, it's more work not to include the category. I like eselect but try not to use it when I don't have to. I personally have "symlink" in my USE flags but I didn't know whether the original poster did, so I included it for completeness.

- John
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[szczerb]

I guess that it'd take me longer to reach for the mouse, click, move the hand back on the keyboard then to just type the name. I was like "wow, you can do that?" when I read your post, although pretty obvious it never occured to me ;]

[John R. Graham]

Heh. The real purpose of a GUI is to display a more sophisticated console window.

- John
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[szczerb]