2010-09-02

Linux on a U810 - ubuntu install latest kernel

To solve some issues with external monitor, I was suggested by

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26833

to install latest kernel. So I did, here are the steps:

1) download *386, *all packages from
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc2_2.6.36-020636rc2.201008230905_all.deb
linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc2-generic_2.6.36-020636rc2.201008230905_i386.deb
linux-image-2.6.36-020636rc2-generic_2.6.36-020636rc2.201008230905_i386.deb



2) install
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb


=> done, not the new kernel appears in the grub menu !



3) note to main: to de-install:
If you would like to uninstall a mainline kernel anyway, first use:

* dpkg -l | grep "linux\-[a-z]*\-"

to find the exact name of the kernel packages you want to uninstall, and then do:

* sudo apt-get remove KERNEL_PACKAGES_TO_REMOVE

Remember that several packages belong to one kernel version: common headers, architecture specific headers and the architecture specific image.