/etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video not removed when upgrading to linux-restricted-modules-common_2.6.26-1.2

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

When upgrading from linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.24.13-19.42 to linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.26-1.2 some files previouly installed are not removed.

Especially /etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video , thus preventing the modprobing of restricted video modules because /sbin/lrm-video has been removed (called in /etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video)

$ apt-cache policy linux-restricted-modules-common
linux-restricted-modules-common:
  Installed: 2.6.26-1.2
  Candidate: 2.6.26-1.2
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.26-1.2 0
        500 ftp://ftp.free.fr intrepid/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Kjell Braden (afflux)]

Confirmed. Note that the linux-restricted-modules-2.6.26-1-generic package does not seem to contain the video drivers.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

The lack of video drivers in l-r-m is bug 243863

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I've heard comments that the removal of the video drivers from this package is an intentional restructuring, moving them into other packages. If so, then l-r-m-common needs to clean up this obsolete conffile, and bug 243863 is invalid. If not, then this bug is invalid, and the problem is that the drivers are missing (bug 243863).

[Kjell Braden (afflux)]

Reading https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/UDS/May2008, this seems intended. They are working on separate packages for nvidia/fglrx. [1]

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2008-June/002585.html

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

I'm closing this report because it has been fixed somewhere between 2.6.26-1.2 and now (2.6.26-4.10) . /etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video still exists but is empty. Hence this is no more an issue.

Thanks.