Re: kernel version

[YH <yh@paradise.net.nz>]

Thanks all for the help. How can I type the "uname -r" and get 
"2.2.20-idepci"? I really didn't know what that means as I am only aware 
of most distributions use the kernel 2.4.x or 2.6.x? Any explain please?

Thank you.

YH

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 08:17 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:12:19 +1300, YH <yh@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >
> > > I've installed 3.0 r2. From kernel package, it seems the kernel version
> > > is 2.4.18. Is here any command / utility to check kernel version? I
> > > would like to check if the saa7134 driver (which is included in the
> > > 2.6.x kernels) is included in the 3.0 r2 or not.
> >
> >
> > I'm not on Debian yet, but can you not use "uname -r" in Debian?  At
> > least, in Fedora, that will give you the active kernel version number.
>
>
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.9n