Re: How do I (temporarily) unsubscribe? - or upgrade my kernel?

2013-03-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Earl Ramirez wrote: > I have a laptop that runs EL6 with NVIDIA Optimus technology. I have > installed the following package from ElRepo and I use optirun to run any > 3D applications. > > bumblebee-3.1-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 > kmod-bbswitch-0.5-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 >

Re: How do I (temporarily) unsubscribe? - or upgrade my kernel?

2013-03-03 Thread Earl Ramirez
On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 08:29 +1100, William Chivers wrote: > Thank you Akemi, I had no idea that I could do this. > For my video drivers I need kernel 3.4 or later. It seems from these sites > that 3.0 and 3.8 is available - has anyone on the list had experience with > this? How stable is SL 6.3 w

Re: How do I (temporarily) unsubscribe? - or upgrade my kernel?

2013-03-03 Thread William Chivers
Thank you Akemi, I had no idea that I could do this. For my video drivers I need kernel 3.4 or later. It seems from these sites that 3.0 and 3.8 is available - has anyone on the list had experience with this? How stable is SL 6.3 with kernel 3.8? Thanks again, Bill >>> Akemi Yagi 04/03/13 8:13

Re: How do I (temporarily) unsubscribe?

2013-03-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 12:51 PM, William Chivers wrote: > Alas my new notebook uses the dreaded NVIDIA Optimus technology. I have set > the BIOS to "Integrated" video but still SL with its ancient Linux kernel > spins the fan noisily and constantly. I am forced to look for a Linux distro > with

How do I (temporarily) unsubscribe?

2013-03-03 Thread William Chivers
Alas my new notebook uses the dreaded NVIDIA Optimus technology. I have set the BIOS to "Integrated" video but still SL with its ancient Linux kernel spins the fan noisily and constantly. I am forced to look for a Linux distro with a newer kernel - I am using Xubuntu at the moment which does not

Re: strings for /etc/yum.repos.d files - cmoa = 0000.0001

2013-03-03 Thread g
On 03/03/2013 12:26 AM, zxq9 wrote: > On 03/02/2013 11:51 PM, g wrote: <<>> > That's a pretty wild story. But before giving up I would make sure the > original repos were in place again and do: ha. i always *CYOA*/*CMOA* first. i believe in cyoa/cmoa, aka, c.y.o.a., aka, coveryourownass. :) [