on 7/8/2007 7:55 AM, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> Yes, with kernels too. The old "it installed i586 instead of i686" bug >>> is quite a pain to resolve. The usual rpm -qa kernel query gives no >>> hint which processor type kernel is installed. You have to dig a little >>> deeper to work out why your i686 system is wanting to install an i586 >>> kernel module during some update, and wanting to re-install other >>> software that's already installed (it wants a different processor >>> version of the same thing, but doesn't actually say so). > > David Boles: >> uname -m >> >> man uname > > I know about uname, have you seen the signature I've been using for > quite time, now? The answer's actually a script output, not boilerplate > text. Ok. I stand corrected. As for "seen the signature"? I ignore fancy signatures. > But uname only shows the currently running kernel, it doesn't help with > installed kernels. e.g. I installed the i686 kernel, and several > updates to it actually do update it. But when I tried to install a > kernel module (that ), it wanted to install an i586 > kernel. That sounds more like you tried to install the wrong "bloody NVidia thing" module and it was pulling a dependency i586 kernel. I have to back out here because I don't have any experience with those "bloody NVidia thing"s. Don't use them or need them. Good luck. -- David
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