[TriLUG] Kernel Updates Broke Stuff.. Help!

[Kevin Flanagan]

On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 21:49, Brian Henning wrote:

Brian,

	I'm not sure about the NTFS stuff, but if you have NVIDIA drivers
installed, you will need to reinstall, from the binary package, those
drivers after every kernel update.




Kevin

> Hi All,
>   I've never seen a kernel update cause this much trouble, but then
> maybe I'm just inexperienced..  Anyhow, here's the deal:
> 
> Right now I'm running FC1 with kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.  The most
> up-to-date kernel build is 2.4.22-1.2194.  However, when I try to boot
> with the .2194 build, modprobe can't find ntfs or freentfs modules, and
> X won't start (it just respawns over and over until it gives up..  I
> think it's the nvidia module failing to load, but I don't remember
> exactly right now).
> 
> So..  Why does a kernel update break module loading?  I have to admit
> that kernel business is sort of FM to me currently anyway, so I don't
> really have much idea what to do or where to start fixing things..
> 
> Thanks y'all,
> ~Brian
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