generic kernel and Cedarview drivers

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
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>> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
>> > http://ef.gy/ubuntu-cedarview-drivers
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>> > The problem is removing the pae's.  I have Lubuntu on this system too
>> > and if I remove the pae's I will remove the one(s) for Lubuntu too.
>> > I tried and this is what happened.  Do  I need to do this step?  Or
>> > is there a way to avoid deleting the kernels on the Lubuntu
>> > partition?  Recovering them afterwards does not seem possible, at
>> > least not for me.
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>> First of all, the kernels on another partition are not relevant for the
>> running system, so you don't need to remove them.
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>> You don't even need to remove the pae kernels from the current
>> partition. If the pae kernel and the generic version of the same kernel
>> are installed, the pae kernel is automatically started by Grub. However
>> if you select the generic kernel from the Grub boot menu, that is the
>> one used for your system. Any driver that needs headers or modules for
>> the current kernel knows how to find the appropriate data. Otherwise it
>> would also be a problem to have older kernels installed. And the author
>> of the article even writes, that removing the pae kernels is the easy
>> way to do it:
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>> | What the documentation DOESN'T mention - presumably because it doesn't
>> | exist - is that you MUST make sure that you're not using Ubuntu's
>> | generic PAE kernel. An easy way to make certain of that would be to
>> | install the regular, generic kernel and to then remove the PAE kernel
>> | like so:
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>> Nils
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> Thanks for clarifying this for me.
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> garyk
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For the record  installing the generic kernel did not resolve the problem.
I still can not autohide not change launcher icon size.

I do not think the other suggestions made in the linked article are
relevant to this problem.  I am using GDM vs light so will try switching
back.

garyk
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