[PlanetCCRMA] new kernels for fc4/fc5

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 11:27, Louis van Dompselaar wrote:
> > Upgrading the planetccrma-core-* meta package(s) you installed
> > originally should get you the new kernel/alsa packages.
>
> It seems to version-check against the plain FC5 kernel:
>
> Transaction Check Error:   package kernel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 (which is
> newer than kernel-2.6.16-1.2080.16.rrt.rhfc5.ccrma) is already installed
>
> How do I keep it from doing that?

Hi. Fernando has put an updated version of Yum on the planetccrma repo. Update 
it, and in /etc/yum.conf, add the line.
oldpackage=1

I havn't tried this yet, but presume it works, and you should be able to 
install earlier kernel packages now.

Nigel

>
>
> And while I'm asking questions anyway; I can't seem to remember seeing
> the NVidia driver issue resolved for FC5/PlanetCCRMA, or have I just
> missed it?  I tried the Planet for a while again this week, but without
> the right video driver everything is slugish or even unusable (Muse
> is terrible without video acceleration for example)
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Louis
>
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