2009/6/6 manuel wolfshant <[email protected]>: > On 06/07/2009 02:17 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> >> Hi Stewart, >> >> Stewart Adam wrote: >>> >>> See here for more information: >>> http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-users/2009-May/000392.html >>> >>> Essentially, the AMD Catalyst drivers are not compatible with kernel >>> 2.6.29 and the community patch often results in instability or hangs. If >>> you'd like to stick with F11, I recommend you install, downgrade the kernel >>> to 2.6.27 and then install the akmod package. >>> >> Thanks for your response. >> >> About your suggestion to downgrade the kernel, in F11 the rpm file format >> will use SHA-256 file hashes[1]. Does that make downgrading the kernel a >> viable option, as one would need to use the F10 rpms for the kernel? >> >> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/StrongerHashes >> > the newer rpm can read the older format, so using the older/previous rpms > should be no problem (from this point of view) >
Thanks Manuel for clearing that up. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
