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rbrownclown

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Registered: 2006-12-29

Posts: 125

Yet Another Modprobe Topic (From Myself)

Apologies for the "bombardment" of modprobe topics.  This is the third one from me, but I've seen others - so other newbies are probably having the same problem.  I just really want to get this working.

For those who haven't seen my other topics, modprobe simply isn't working for me.  This has caused me snags in getting cpufreq and Xorg working.  The error it spits out is:

FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.16-ARCH/modules.dep: no such file or directory

I did a little reading and figured out that the kernel update (2.6.16 to 2.6.19) is causing modprobe to look in the wrong place.  That also explains my kernel panics (which I thought was caused by cpufreq).

I'm a newbie to Arch, so please make what I have to do clear.  How do I fix this?  Will I have to do this everytime there's a kernel update?  Again, I'm sorry for posting more then one topic - but I figure, why bring 'em back?  They're old news now.

Last edited by rbrownclown (2007-02-02 18:56:45)

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Yet Another Modprobe Topic (From Myself)

Sounds like you use lilo.  There is a message output during a kernel upgrade that says "Make sure to rerun lilo after this upgrade" - did you do that?

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rbrownclown

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Registered: 2006-12-29

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Re: Yet Another Modprobe Topic (From Myself)

Sounds like you use lilo.  There is a message output during a kernel upgrade that says "Make sure to rerun lilo after this upgrade" - did you do that?

I don't use Lilo.  I use Grub.

no24

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Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 62

Re: Yet Another Modprobe Topic (From Myself)

i use grub and had the same error.

i think i change /*26.img to /kernel26.img on the initrd line of /boot/grub/menu.lst

so

initrd /kernel26.img

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Yet Another Modprobe Topic (From Myself)

Run depmod as root, then try modprobe again. If that works, then something went wrong during your kernel upgrade. The kernel install script runs depmod after every install/upgrade.

rbrownclown

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Registered: 2006-12-29

Posts: 125

Re: Yet Another Modprobe Topic (From Myself)

i use grub and had the same error.

i think i change /*26.img to /kernel26.img on the initrd line of /boot/grub/menu.lst

so

initrd /kernel26.img

This worked.  I'm now running a perfect Arch system.  Thanks a lot for the help, guys!