Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I did my update and noticed the message about changes to kernel > packages. Depending on how I read it, it sounds like gentoo-sources is > still available just that older versions are no longer updated as long. > If I read it a different way, it sounds like gentoo-sources is about to > stop existing. That last one doesn't sound right. I can't imagine it > just going away since there are Gentoo specific stuff in there, openrc I > think being one option lurking about somewhere. I think there is others > but been a while since I been poking around in there. gentoo-sources is > hanging around right? > > Currently I'm running 5.14.15 gentoo-sources kernel. It works but is > old. No new types of hardware. Most stuff I buy is older just because > it tends to be more supported anyway. I tried a good while back to > upgrade to 6.1.55 which sort of boots I think but something doesn't work > and all I get is a console. It's been a while since I tried it but it > did fail several times. I did the upgrade the usual way. I used make > oldconfig and went through all the answers which are mostly no since I > still have old hardware. Is there a better way than oldconfig? Is > there a way to start from scratch and list all the stuff that is on in > the old kernel and then compare that to the newer kernel so I can just > enable what is different but I need? I'd rather avoid going through all > the menus hoping I recognize everything. I forget what I went to the > kitchen for. Remembering kernel options from years ago is likely to not > end well. :/ > > Is it possible that version of kernel had bad bugs that made it a bad > idea with hindsight? I plan to upgrade to the newest version in the > tree if I try again. > > Any thoughts? Ideas? > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Update. As some know, I rarely reboot. Today, I rebooted. I had to replace UPS batteries. I had a problem but will start another thread about that shortly. I finally got a newer kernel that works. Awesome!!!! I'm on version 6.7.1-gentoo now. I figured out what wasn't working before, the mouse. I had a pointer but it wouldn't move. I found the mouse stuff on the wiki and for some silly reason, the needed options wasn't enabled in the kernel by default. Why someone wouldn't set a mouse to enabled by default is beyond me. I suspect the defaults came from the kernel sources not Gentoo devs tho. Anyway, I rebooted and despite my other problem I had to fix, everything works now. I'm gonna try to update more often but not booting very often makes that kinda hard. :/ At least I got a few years to worry about upgrading kernels again. ;-) Thanks to all. Dale :-) :-)
