generic kernel and Cedarview drivers

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 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
>>> >
>>> > 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.
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> | 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.
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> 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.
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> garyk
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Upon further thought, GDM and lightdm control the graphical login, not the
display behavior after login-  that is what Unity does.

garyk
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