Comment on Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download

BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  i was going to amend my other comment.

  according to this in the release notes:

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  HWE kernel issues

  To provide support for newer AMD processors, Linux Mint 22.2 ships HWE Kernel 6.14.

  This kernel however has issues with:

  Virtualbox
  Old Intel GPUs which use the i915 driver
  Old NVIDIA cards which use the 470 driver (this driver is no longer supported by NVIDIA and thus doesn't support newer kernels)

  If you are affected by one of these issues, we recommend you install Linux Mint 22.1 instead, which ships with LTS kernel 6.8.

  You can then perform an upgrade towards 22.2 without switching towards the HWE kernel.

  i ran lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' and i confirmed i was running i915 but i'm also currently on 22.1 with kernel 6.8; so does that mean i can upgrade normally and not worry about the kernel?

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  • danzabia@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It also says I’m using i915 but I bought this laptop a year ago… so I suspect many Intel GPUs use that driver?

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    does that mean i can upgrade normally and not worry about the kernel?

    Yeah, just doing the upgrade via Update Manager > Edit menu leaves you on the 6.8 kernel. Confirmed with all three of my machines I upgraded.

    Two of them I have since put on kernel 6.14 via Update Manager > Kernels, after updating to Mint 22.2 and seeing it still on kernel 6.8.

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