I’ve done 3 upgrades to Debian lenny over the last week or so. I started off with my work desktop, a Dell Optiplex 745, followed by my home desktop AMD64, and finally my MacBook. Apart from some very minor problems, the upgrade went very smoothly, and everything works fine afterwards.
I had no issues upgrading the Optiplex – everything just worked.
On the AMD64, the biggest problem was with the installer for the NVidia binary drivers. It installs the X11 drivers in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/. For the Xorg version in lenny, these need to reside in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/. The problem was easily found (the Xorg.0.log file pointed to a missing nvidia driver), and easily fixed (dpkg -L xserver-xorg-video-intel showed where the driver files should now reside).
cp /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
cp /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx* /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/
The MacBook upgrade went smoothly aswell, with the usual caveats. My kernel isn’t managed by apt because I apply the mactel patches to it. So, after the dist-upgrade, I got the new kernel sources, applied the latest mactel patches, built the package and installed it. I also built the headers package, and installed that to build and install the madwifi drivers for the atheros wireless card.
apt-get source linux-image-2.6.22-2-686
cd mactel/kernel/mactel-patches-2.6.22
./apply ../../../linux-2.6-2.6.22
cd ../../../linux-2.6-2.6.22
make oldconfig
make-kpkg –initrd linux-image
make-kpkg linux-headers
dpkg -i ../linux-image-*.deb ../linux-headers-*.deb
I rebooted before building and installing the madwifi drivers.
cd /usr/src/modules/madwifi
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22*/build SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22*/build SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules_install
modprobe ath_pci
And that’s it. All three machines are running lenny now with no problems.
