looks like you want: linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04-edge On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 2:18 PM Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote:
> You should search for "linux-image-5.3". In ubuntu land, i've seen > references to hwe (hardware-enablement or something) used for supporting > new hardware on older releases. > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 1:59 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:23:02 -0800 (PST) >> Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo: >> >> >On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> > >> >> Another option that I have considered is to upgrade my 4.15 kernel >> >> to 5.2 right now, and otherwise stick with 18.04. Is this possible? >> >> And if so, is there a 'for dummies' guide somewhere? >> >> >If Xubuntu has the kernels as pre-built, ready-to-install packages you >> >should be able to do so. >> > >> >On Slackware the current kernel is 4.4.202 but my Ryzen desktop needs >> >4.18 or higher so I have 4.19.84 installed on it. Here, there are 6 >> >packages for the kernel: kernel-firmware, kernel-generic, >> >kernel-headers, kernel-huge, kernel-modules, and kernel-source. If >> >your repo has these (or an equivalent set of modules) they _should_ be >> >upgadeable on your system. >> >> I opened Synaptic and searched package name and description for >> 'kernel.' That resulted in only a few packages, and none started with >> 'kernel.' I think here the package name starts with 'linux-,' and >> searching on that resulted in 5314 packages. including a lot with 5.3 >> in the name. I am guess that this means that the packages necessary to >> install 5.3 are in the repositories, but which of the hundred+ with 5.3 >> in the name I need to install remains a mystery. >> >> I'm going to ask next on the Ubuntu forums. >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
