john wendel wrote:
Just for fun, on F11 32-bit system (not tried on F12), I downloaded
the
latest F11 64-bit kernel package and installed it with
rpm --nodeps --ignorearch --force <kernel package name>
It installed OK, since the kernel is pretty isolated from the rest of
the system software.
Booted into runlevel 3, and it worked fine.
Now, X won't start because it needs the 64-bit nouveau driver. I don't
know, but I suspect that you will need to install the entire 64-bit X
server package(s). This will force you to install at least the 64-bit
libc package.
Interesting.
A similar problem had been described for the Nvidia closed driver;
same thing with noveau? not a good thing: the kernel-X interface
is expected to be cleaner in the open source driver...
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