neocytrix Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 Hello, I have noticed that everytime I go to the Kernal tab in the Control Center it says that the kernal isn't good (or somthing to that effect). It tells me that either I could have found a bug in the KDE thing. Sorry if this doesn't sound right, I am VERY new to the Linux world. -Neocytrix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 Hi, welcome to the board. Real shot in the dark here, im guessing it says something like that because you don't have the kernel sources installed. I don't use that KDE facility myself, so im guessing thats the problem. What is it you want to achieve? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 What is it you want to achieve? Good question anon, do you really need to look at ther kernel or do you just want to because you can't. 8) Welcome to the board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neocytrix Posted September 19, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 I was just going through things trying to learn them, I really don't need to look at the Kernal but what I want to know is can it damage something? Because it says that there could possibly be a bug in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted September 20, 2003 Report Share Posted September 20, 2003 I was just going through things trying to learn them, I really don't need to look at the Kernal but what I want to know is can it damage something? Because it says that there could possibly be a bug in it. It's probably a bug in the viewer if it is something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted September 20, 2003 Report Share Posted September 20, 2003 Just checked, you do have to have the kernel sources installed to use the kernel tab in KDE control centre. You don't have them installed, so thats why you see that error message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 20, 2003 Report Share Posted September 20, 2003 urpmi kernel-source from a terminal as root will install it. If you want to browse through there you will not hurt anything, as long as you don't change anything. If you change anything and you have hardware that is kernel specific (nvidia, modem etc...) and has to be compiled for the current running kernel, you may get errors. This is easily resolved by uninstallling and reinstalling the kernel-source. Have fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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