Kernel

Today I decided to upgrade the kernel (gentoo-sources) from 4.19.64 to 5.2.6 on my old ThinkPad X220. Apart from a few hiccups, everything went quite smoothly. I already have a blog post about upgrading the kernel on Gentoo, so I’ll skip many things here. First, ensure the sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.2.6 is installed: # emerge -av =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.26 After the above package installed, we should be able to list it: ~ ❯❯❯ eselect kernel list Available kernel symlink targets: [1] linux-4.14.63-gentoo-r1 [2] linux-4.14.65-gentoo [3] linux-4.14.78-gentoo [4] linux-4.14.83-gentoo [5] linux-4.19.27-gentoo-r1 [6] linux-4.19.44-gentoo [7] linux-4.19.52-gentoo [8] linux-4.19.57-gentoo [9] linux-4.19.64-gentoo * [10] linux-5.2.6-gentoo Let’s select linux-5.2.6-gentoo as the version we’d like to switch to: ...

Today I’m going to document how I built and installed kernel 4.20.1 a Gentoo laptop, Dell XPS 15 9570. This blog post is not intended to be a tutorial or even a guide. I’m very new to Gentoo, and have been spoiled by Ubuntu and Fedora for not needing to compile my own kernel. :) Anyhow, it’s very likely that I’ll need to compile the kernel again on Gentoo, and therefore I think having some sorts of documents is better than nothing at all. ...

The other day, my SuSE 10.1 notifies that there were updates available including bug fixes and new kernel. I thought it might be convenient if I just click on select all, and update button. So, I did that and went out to school. When I came back home, the update was nicely done. There was no indication to ask me to restart the computer (as most other OSes do), but I thought it’d be good restart it anyway. ...