Re: udev and kernel 2.6.12
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 16:33, Jason 'Sputnik' Paku wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 07:00 +0200, Manu wrote:
> > Thanks, I am going to try that right now!
> >
> > The cool thing is that dselect helped me to fixed the
> > other package being not completely installed due to
> > that errors. So now I have Xorg (way faster) and gnome
> > 2.10 completely.
> >
> > One question still stand. how would I know I can
> > upgrade them if they are in the preferences not to be
> > changed?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Manu
>
> in order to properly upgrade udev, and hal. you will need to wait until
> a 2.6.12 kernel becomes available in the sid branch. currently there is
> no 2.6.12 kernel present, which is why you're having problems upgrading.
There IS a 2.6.12 kernel in sid, it has just changed its name. It is now
called linux-image-2.6.12.
David
>
>
> i usually check by "apt-get update" and searching for "apt-cache search
> ^kernel-image-2.6.12". when you see that a 2.6.12 kernel is available,
> you'd remove the pins from preferences in /etc/apt and install the new
> kernel image, then upgrade.
>
> i tried going around this problem by grabbing a vanilla 2.6.12 kernel
> from kernel.org. i planned on creating my own kernel package to bypass
> the wait for a 2.6.12 kernel to appear in sid's branch. but
> unforentantly my ATi drivers didn't care for the new kernel.
>
> you could try making your own package and see if it works. i never got
> that far due to my card.
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