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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:42:34
Message-Id: 1929480.VEiyYHLp7T@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7 by Peter Humphrey
1 On Sunday, 31 December 2017 00:33:34 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Saturday, 30 December 2017 00:18:12 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > If you want to fix the bugs, then by all means soldier on. But if your
4 > > intent is to have a working system that boots, probably drop using
5 > > 4.14.x and go back to say 4.12.x ?
6 >
7 > But the whole 4.12 branch has been masked, so that won't do. Here, I've
8 > had to go back to 4.9.49-r1 (amd64, not ~amd64). But now I see 4.9.72 has
9 > been stabilised.
10
11 Oops! That's on an x86 box. On this amd64 box the latest version is still
12 4.9.49-r1.
13
14 > I think I'll wait for some stabiliity in the kernel
15 > version offerings before I make another move. Three kernel compilations
16 > on six systems within a week are a few too many.
17
18 --
19 Regards,
20 Peter.