How do I update the kernel

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zelluloidtraum · Post by **zelluloidtraum** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:25 pm

That's it...how do I update the kernel or maybe I missed it in the forums.All I need is a point in the right direction

smasher · Post by **smasher** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:29 pm

How's this? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml

hicsuget · Post by **hicsuget** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:46 pm

The page you linked to said that I needed to type

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lappy root # emerge -u gentoo-dev-sources

to update my sources. That didn't work--I'm still stuck on 2.6.10 and I need 2.6.11 to get my laptop screen to work right.

So I tried

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lappy root # emerge  -pv gentoo-dev-sources/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r2.ebuild

but I got the following error:

Calculating dependencies
Traceback (most recent call last):
[...]
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/posixpath.py", line 49, in isabs
return s.startswith('/')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'

Anything special I need to do?

smasher · Post by **smasher** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:54 pm

Try

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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -av gentoo-dev-sources

hicsuget · Post by **hicsuget** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:08 pm

Thanks, smasher... it worked. You wouldn't happen to know how to solve this Gnome keyboard riddle, would you?

zelluloidtraum · Post by **zelluloidtraum** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:09 pm

much appreciated smash