Stable repositories got updated
Today’s merge of Manjaro-Stable from our Manjaro-Testing repositories will bring these changes:
- new toolchain-stack and other updates (i686/x86_64/lib32)
- Virtualbox extramodules updated to 4.2.6 (i686/x86_64)
- updated packages in addon: pamac, tintwizard, razor-qt, grub-customizer, gtk-theme-preferences, zukitwo-themes and others (i686/x86_64)
- 62 updated packages in extra including intel 2.20.17 driver (i686/x86_64)
- 103 updated packages in community including Virtualbox 4.2.6 (i686/x86_64)
Everybody still using the catalyst-legacy driver should use mhwd to install supported opensource-drivers before updating. Use the commands written below. Nvidia users should double-check which proprietary driver supports their graphic cards now. All used gtk-themes might not work properly with gtk 3.6. We recommend to use our current default theme, which is called xfce-theme-greenbird. Here is a list of other supported themes for gtk 3.6.
We now have the following kernels available:
- linux34: 3.4.24 (stable kernel)
- linux35: 3.5.7.2
- linux36: 3.6.11 (end of life)
- linux37: 3.7.1
Please use mhwd-kernel to install those kernels. For linux35-series it would be:
sudo mhwd-kernel linux35
Everybody using the Catalyst-Legacy driver should use followed commands to update their systems:
su
for pkg in $(pacman -Qq | grep catalyst-legacy); do pacman -Rs ${pkg}; done
mhwd -r pci video-catalyst-legacy
pacman -Syyu
mhwd -a pci free 0300 -f
Manjaro Linux comes with all my proprietary graphics drivers by default or do i have to install them?.
If you have used the non-free option during the installation you will have prorpietary drivers installed. You can check this with mwhd
You can install it then with followed command:
More about hardware detection in our Wiki
I do have them, thank you so muchs you guys are the best as your distro.
This might sound really stupid and newbish of me, but what is the difference between the kernels (linux34-35-36-37). you really do make a great piece of software XD.
Isn’t a stupied question as it might sound. Each new kernel will have new features added. As long as they get maintained, bugfixes and features get backported to older kernels. Also hardware-support might be better in newer kernels. In some cases it is better to stick to an older kernel cos of some regressions and such. Here are some interesting links for you: What’s new in Linux 3.7 – What’s new in Linux 3.6 – What’s new in Linux 3.5 – What’s new in Linux 3.4
Seems the latest toolchain broke virtualbox-guest-modules. If you run Manjaro i686 in Virtualbox you might want to read this.