Re: 4.8 kernel for Xenial
John Lenton schreef op 21-11-2016 16:11: On 21 November 2016 at 13:55, Xen wrote: Not to mention that 4.4 doesn't support 900 nVidia GPUs which have been out for like 2 years. As a happy user of a GTX 970 on xenial's 4.4, I'm puzzled by your assertion. Then I suggest you look into it yourself instead of just stating your bewilderment. However I guess it's my mistake as I was talking soley of the Nouveau drivers. If you but search "kernel 4.6 nvidia 900" you will find the posts: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gtx-900-nouveau&num=1 I cannot use the nVidia driver because I lose the good resolution in the TTYs if I do, at least this has been my experience with a previous card. And I just don't know how to tackle that (yet). Of course the kernel has nothing to do with graphics cards in other respects... apart from supporting any third party modules. When you use Nouveau on a 4.4 kernel there is no game playing at all; OpenGL just won't work. Performance seems abysmal however. I thought it would be doable but it looks like it is only about 10% or maybe 20% of the performance of the nvidia driver. My mistake I guess, sorry. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: 4.8 kernel for Xenial
On 21/11/16 21:01, JMZ wrote: > Try the canonical-kernel-team ppa to get 4.8.x and onwards. Never had a > problem with it even when running xenial. > > https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa > While it will probably work fine for most people, it's not necessarily a solution: > This ppa is used for building pre-release and test kernels. > > It IS NOT RECOMMENDED that you subscribe to this PPA. However, given that there is a 'linux-lts-yakkety' metapackage in there the work is definitely underway to bring it to xenial proper. As for the timeline... J -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: 4.8 kernel for Xenial
Hi Sam, Try the canonical-kernel-team ppa to get 4.8.x and onwards. Never had a problem with it even when running xenial. https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa Jordan Sam Van den Eynde schreef op 10-11-2016 13:54: Hi, I'm aware of the manual possibilities to install it myself, but is anybody aware of an expected timeframe for the Yakkety 4.8 kernel to become available in the Xenial repositories? The main reason is to get a new version of zfs, since it includes new features I am looking for (related to hole_birth and open bugs). -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: 4.8 kernel for Xenial
On 21 November 2016 at 13:55, Xen wrote: > Not to mention that 4.4 doesn't support 900 nVidia GPUs which have been out > for like 2 years. As a happy user of a GTX 970 on xenial's 4.4, I'm puzzled by your assertion. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: 4.8 kernel for Xenial
Sam Van den Eynde schreef op 10-11-2016 13:54: Hi, I'm aware of the manual possibilities to install it myself, but is anybody aware of an expected timeframe for the Yakkety 4.8 kernel to become available in the Xenial repositories? The main reason is to get a new version of zfs, since it includes new features I am looking for (related to hole_birth and open bugs). Not to mention that 4.4 doesn't support 900 nVidia GPUs which have been out for like 2 years. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss