Bug#916720: upgrade-reports: stretch to buster upgrade graphics fail, ok with old kernel 4.9

Niels Thykier <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Dec 2018 07:57:00 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.user.testing
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Max:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 22:48, Niels Thykier <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>>
> Another amendment here:
> 4.18.0-2 does indeed work as expected. 4.18.0-3 does not work.
> I tried this on Dell Latitude D630 and Dell Latitude E6400 notebooks.
> 
> How can this be forwarded to the kernel maintainers?
> 
> Best regards,
> Max
> 

Hi Max,

Thanks for your interest in improving Debian. :)

I noticed that there is now a new version of the kernel in Debian
unstable[1].  Please consider testing whether that solves your issue.
/Caveat emptor/: It has only had a few days of exposure in unstable at
the moment and may have unreported issues.  If this is a problem for
you, consider waiting for it to reach testing before trying it out.

If that still fails for you, please file a bug via reportbug against the
"linux" package.

Thanks,
~Niels

[1] For how to do that, please consult:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8049/how-to-install-some-packages-from-unstable-debian-on-a-computer-running-stabl

Using the APT::Default-Release configuration from that answer with
"testing" instead of "stable" should do the trick followed by:

  apt install linux-image-<subtype>/unstable

(Assuming here you track one of the linux-image-* packages for getting
newer kernels automatically.  Alternative, use "apt install
<linux-kernel-package>/unstable" to install the concrete package from
unstable)

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