Re: Automatic kernel-upgrade: How ?

["Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2007 14:14 schrieb Matthias Julius:
> Wolfgang Mader <Wolfgang_Mader@gmx.de> writes:
> > linux-image-2.6-amd64
> > This package depends on the latest binary image for Linux kernel
> > This packages just installes an new image, if one is availabel. You have
> > to uninstall the old one by hand.
>
> This depends.  Aptitude can track automatically installed packages
> (e.g. packages that are installed because of a dependency on them).
> Aptitude will then uninstall an old kernel as soon as
> linux-image-2.6-amd64 doesn't depend on it anymore.
>
> Matthias

Yeah, this is fine and I am using apt, aptitude or synaptic, just the one I 
like in the moment. And the upgrade works perfectly. But doing so, this 
appeared another problem: The latest kernel (2.6.18-4-amd64) inhibits to load 
selfcompiled (and/or propritrary moduls). I my case it was "fglrx" (this is 
the ATI 3d-accelerator) and "acer_acpi" (which is needed on my notebook to 
activate the wlan-on/off-switch). Both inhibit to load with the same error: 
versions mismatch. With version 2.6.18-3-amd64 everything is working fine.

(Of course I had the correct headers and sources installed)

So I went back to the older kernel, well, the newest is not always the best 
working...


Anyway, best regards and thanks for the help !


Regards

Hans