Re: Automatic kernel-upgrade: How ?
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:48:05PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> 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...
Selfcompiled and/or propriotary modules (infact all modules) have to be
compiled for each kernel version. If you update the kernel then you
have to update the modules.
Doug.
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