Peter Davoust, mused, then expounded: > Ok, so I may try a stress test if I get a chance, but I'd much rather > try an older kernel version first. As far as specs, Turion64 dual > core, nvidia GeForce go 6150, 2gb ram (of some kind, not sure, I know, > it's deplorable), 120 gb hard disk, other than that I'm not sure, > unless you're looking for asthetics, which I assume you aren't. Can > anyone tell me how to emerge an older kernel? I'm not that good with > portage, and I'm not sure how to emerge older versions. I think I knew > at one point, but that was a while ago. Thanks. >
emerge -av =gentoo-sources-2.6.18-r7 (something like that) But, as yu have an nvidia card, I suggest doing the following vim /etc/portage/package.keywords i # x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ~amd64 <ESC> :wq emerge -uDNav nvidia-drivers Bob - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
