New Installation Troubles!!

[aghidotti]

Hi, i'm a debian sarge user. I installed it on my laptop nearly a year ago. Now i did an hard disk upgrade because my 20Gb one was too small and slow. I saved my kernel deb package because after many steps i was able to configure a really working kernel, which included full acpi support, wireless and some other features i wanted. Debian default's kernel doesn't include today a full hardware support for my laptop. So i installed a new debian sarge, and installed my old working 2.6.10(+ some acpi and sw suspend patches) deb packaged kernel. Now i have some problems:
1) Alsa mixer not created/found --> no audio support;
2) When shutting down linux i get a message which says: "acpi power_off called".

In the old installation audio worked and when i shutted down linux, my laptop automatically turned off, while now i'm obliged to keep pressed the power button to turn it off. Because of the equality of the kernel beetween the two installations, i'm not able to explain to me why i'm having these problems. Could you help me? Thanks

[michux]

Did you compile it again on the new system? Or just copied the image? If the second option is true, did you also copy the /lib/modules folder and /etc/modules* steeting for kernel modules?

What happens when you do:

lsmod

?

[aghidotti]

I compiled the working kernel in the debian way:

make-kpkg --revision x.y kernel_image

So the deb kernel package contains all modules and in fact it creates a 2.6.10 directory into /lib/modules containing all modules, and also creates all other files & links in /boot.
I didn't compiled it again on the new system, i simply installed the deb package (i didn't copy only the kernel image):

dpkg -i kernel-image_x.y.deb

lsmod shows me all modules currently loaded, but i have not compiled acpi as a collection of modules, but i choosed all acpi features built into kernel and not modules.

About /etc/modules, in my older one i had only "fglrx" module contained in that file, because i use hotplug & discover which automatically load modules for found hardware.