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Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3



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Davide Mancusi wrote:
> Chris Bannister ha scritto:
>> On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>>> You will have to stop the x-server and then restart it. In fact I had to
>>> reboot (aaargggghhh) in order for the module to install correctly. Try
>>
>> Instead of having to reboot, you might get away with just a
>> dpkg-reconfigure <your-kernel-package>
>>
> 
>     No, you need to reboot because you recompile the kernel module.
Shouldn't

# modprobe -r <module>
# modprobe <module>

suffice instead of reboot?

> Still, there might a way to avoid this but a simple dpkg-reconfigure
> won't help.

Module unload/load can be a part of package configuration perhaps?
Postinst script in .deb?

Sarunas

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