On Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 3:22:07 AM UTC+2, Kristian Elof Sørensen wrote: > > On Sat, 2017-05-20 at 13:42 -0600, Reg Tiangha wrote: > > People may not have noticed, but there is now a 4.9 kernel in > > current-testing (4.9.28 to be specific). > > Running kernel 4.9.35-19 now > > > 1) Hardware that used to work with 4.4 or 4.8 no longer works with > > 4.9. > > None observed > > > 2) Hardware that didn't work with 4.4 or 4.8 still doesn't work. > > Same as with the 4.8.12-12 > > That means quite a lot of hardware does not work or are not recognised > by the kernel. > > This is on a very recent i5-7200U based ASUS B9440U laptop with its > accompaining USB-C dock. > > Powermanagemet in general is sorely missing on laptop with Qubes. > (batterylife is 3-4 hours instead of approx. 10, the monitor backlight > never turns off despite the screensaver turning the screen black, the > keyboard backlight does not work and the fan runs nearly all the time. > > > 4) General feedback on the 4.9 kernel. > > > > Well I look forward to kernel 4.10 and 4.11 and hope to see them soon > on Qubes. > > Othervise I will have to end my Qubes experiment on this laptop and > install something else, in order to get actual work done. > > Kristian > Since I doubt Marek or others will have time, I'd suggest building your own 4.11-based kernel per the instructions found in this thread. :) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/yBeUJPwKwHM
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