[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#585862: marked as done (nvidia-kernel-dkms: dkms does not automatically rebuild nvidia module for newly installed kernel)

[Russ Allbery]

> Well, I got it to automatically rebuild the module.

> Even though I had the 2.6.32-3 kernel headers installed, aptitude didn't
> upgrade the headers to version 2.6.32-5. Once I installed the headers
> the module was rebuilt successfully.  I'm closing the bug, but at the
> same time, I feel this should have been done automatically

Yeah, me too, but there doesn't seem to be any way to do it.  The problem
is that the nvidia-kernel-dkms package doesn't know what headers to depend
on, plus can't tell from the package manager that you don't have the right
headers for the kernel you're running.  I do wish dkms would be a bit
louder about complaining, though.

It's unfortunately a standard problem with all kernel modules that use
DKMS.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>