Need for speed 🙂 Figured I would try the latest kernel in my VirtualBox setup on my mac
grab the deb packages from :
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/
Index of /~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30
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linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb | 10-Jun-2009 11:27 | 598K | |
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linux-headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb | 10-Jun-2009 10:04 | 8.8M | |
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linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb | 10-Jun-2009 11:27 | 24M |
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Install these packages : sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Reboot :sudo reboot
Setup the virtualbox driver : sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Reboot : sudo reboot
done – perfect 🙂
$ uname -a
Linux glaw-desktop 2.6.30-020630-generic #020630 SMP Wed Jun 10 09:45:40 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
What’s this really get me? Don’t know yet – but its kewl 🙂
**Edit ***
On my laptop, running Ubuntu natively, I also had to update to the newest 180.60 Nvidia drivers :
nvidia-180-kernel-source_180.60-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
nvidia-180-libvdpau_180.60-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
nvidia-glx-180-dev_180.60-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
nvidia-glx-180_180.60-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
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First I uninstalled the kernel –
sudo apt-get purge linux-headers-2.6.30-020630 linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic
then installed the new nvidia packages :
sudo dpkg -i nvidia*.deb
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then reinstalled the kernel :
sudo dpkg -i linux-*.deb
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Then rebooted
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