From o1bigtenor at gmail.com  Fri Feb 26 07:04:20 2021
From: o1bigtenor at gmail.com (o1bigtenor)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 07:04:20 -0600
Subject: [tclug-list] Downgrading the kernel
Message-ID: <CAPpdf598tDN6ogEE9uA+YPzHQjRLTex2_nwTtJnzTSf8ni2MPw@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings

The last kernel where I had almost no issues with my monitors not
being willing to un-sleep was 5.4.0-4 (Debian testing). I, foolishly,
used autoremove  which removed all kernels older than 5.10.1 or some
such. The newer kernels are really not helping matters.

Some I come to the nub of the problem - - - - - Debian repositories do
not seem to have anything like a 5.4.xx kernel available anymore. The
kernel.org website lists, today anyway, 5.4.100 as not only current
but that the 5.4.xx kernel is a LTS version with support to Dec 2025
(that's definitely a ways out there and only some 3 years past the EOL
of 5.10.x).

Searching for a procedure what I'm finding is most on installing a
newer kernel, say from unstable or even experimental, then there are a
very small number of how tos which are just about downloading
something that is still in the repositories. Last, and in smallest
numbers, are those that suggest compiling this kernel is the 'what to
do'.

This kernel downgrading and/or kernel compiling is something I really
haven't even wanted to do and not finding any reasonably current (less
than 3 years old) information has me concerned.

Does anyone have a cheat sheet for this kernel compiling (and
installing) or is there something else that can be done?

Please advise.

From o1bigtenor at gmail.com  Fri Feb 26 07:32:19 2021
From: o1bigtenor at gmail.com (o1bigtenor)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 07:32:19 -0600
Subject: [tclug-list] Downgrading the kernel
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 7:04 AM o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings
>
> The last kernel where I had almost no issues with my monitors not
> being willing to un-sleep was 5.4.0-4 (Debian testing). I, foolishly,
> used autoremove  which removed all kernels older than 5.10.1 or some
> such. The newer kernels are really not helping matters.
>
> Some I come to the nub of the problem - - - - - Debian repositories do
> not seem to have anything like a 5.4.xx kernel available anymore. The
> kernel.org website lists, today anyway, 5.4.100 as not only current
> but that the 5.4.xx kernel is a LTS version with support to Dec 2025
> (that's definitely a ways out there and only some 3 years past the EOL
> of 5.10.x).
>
> Searching for a procedure what I'm finding is most on installing a
> newer kernel, say from unstable or even experimental, then there are a
> very small number of how tos which are just about downloading
> something that is still in the repositories. Last, and in smallest
> numbers, are those that suggest compiling this kernel is the 'what to
> do'.
>
> This kernel downgrading and/or kernel compiling is something I really
> haven't even wanted to do and not finding any reasonably current (less
> than 3 years old) information has me concerned.
>
> Does anyone have a cheat sheet for this kernel compiling (and
> installing) or is there something else that can be done?
>
> Please advise.

I have been able to find at:
https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.4.101/amd64/

copies of all of linux  - headers, -image and -modules.

Might this be a possible solution short of compiling a kernel?

TIA