Hi again, Christoph Groth <cwg@falma.de> (20/04/2011): > Cyril, thank you for your quick reply. no problem. > I executed "aptitude update && aptitude full-upgrade". Kernel > 2.6.38 was available in the repositories but did not get installed > automatically, as I had installed linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 > directly instead of linux-image-2.6-amd64 (which depends on the > latest 2.6 kernel). That explains, but then it's your choice (of not using that handy meta package) which triggered that. :) > That's a pity, because after executing the familiar "update & > full-upgrade", I suddenly ended up without a working X. This might > be a serious problem for users who are not comfortable to work from > the command line. Those should be using the proper kernel meta package anyway. And default install includes apt-listchanges, which makes sure stuff like [1] are presented to the user. 1. http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.git;a=blob;f=debian/NEWS.Debian > As this seems to be a rather rare case where a package is tightly > bound to a specific kernel version, perhaps a good solution would be > a postinst script which checks whether a compatible nouveau module > is installed and warn if not? How do you check whether it's available in a custom home-built kernel? Again, that says nothing about the running kernel. (I didn't check whether it's possible to have that driver built-in). Also, this is a FAQ, see: http://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/ http://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/faq/general.html KiBi.
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