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[Wayde <didinux@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the quick answer :)
Now it was installed ! however the brightness applet don't work .. should i
install something else ?
--
Wayde.



On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:10 PM, ajmctaggart <ajmctaggart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes this has happened to me a couple of times in recent kernels,  simply
> run the "make install" and reboot, it will work fine...
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Wayde <didinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Have anyone upgraded to Karmic ?
>> I did the upgrade and i have some issues installing the sony laptop
>> module. Can anyone help please ?
>>
>>
>> ===
>> didinux@laptop:~$ uname -a
>> Linux laptop 2.6.31-7-generic #27-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 24 19:18:31 UTC 2009
>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> ===
>> didinux@laptop:~/_tmp/sony-laptop/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9$ make
>> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-7-generic/build
>> SUBDIRS=/home/didinux/_tmp/sony-laptop/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9 modules
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-7-generic'
>>   CC [M]
>> /home/didinux/_tmp/sony-laptop/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9/sony-laptop.o
>>   CC [M]  /home/didinux/_tmp/sony-laptop/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9/test.o
>>   Building modules, stage 2.
>>   MODPOST 2 modules
>>   CC
>> /home/didinux/_tmp/sony-laptop/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9/sony-laptop.mod.o
>>   LD [M]
>> /home/didinux/_tmp/sony-laptop/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9/sony-laptop.ko
>>   CC
>> /home/didinux/_tmp/sony-laptop/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9/test.mod.o
>>   LD [M]  /home/didinux/_tmp/sony-laptop/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9/test.ko
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-7-generic'
>> didinux@laptop:~/_tmp/sony-laptop/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9$ sudo make
>> install
>> mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.6.31-7-generic/updates/
>> cp sony-laptop.ko /lib/modules/2.6.31-7-generic/updates/
>> depmod -a
>> didinux@laptop:~/_tmp/sony-laptop/sony-laptop-zseries-0.9$ sudo make test
>> rmmod sony-laptop
>> ERROR: Module sony_laptop does not exist in /proc/modules
>> make: *** [test] Error 1
>> ===
>>
>> --
>> Wayde.
>>
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