Hi

With Ubuntu 18.04.2 now out, how do these updates roll-in to KDE Neon? For example, OMG Ubuntu reports you can upgrade to the 4.18 kernel and newer xorg packages with this command:

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-hwe-18.04
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/02/ubu ... s-released

Is this recommended in Neon, or does pkcon / Discover pull in these updates differently?

I'd like to take advantage of the new kernel but do not want to break my Neon installation by gong off piste so to speak!

Thanks
Nick

The Neon team does not mind updating the kernel is xorg server

"Ubuntu LTS hardware enablement for KDE neon"-HOWTO:

1. Use "pkcon"-command:

$ man pkcon |& sed -n -E '/^[^[:alpha:]]+install /,/^$/ p'
install PACKAGES
Install the given packages from repositories.


2. Install:

$ sudo pkcon install linux-generic-hwe-18.04
$ sudo pkcon install xserver-xorg-hwe-18.04

3. Reboot.

That's all.

Enjoy.

nharvey wrote:With Ubuntu 18.04.2 now out, how do these updates roll-in to KDE Neon?

We are still undecided. On 16.04 we did it the Ubuntu way and only enabled HWE for new installations. I am rather of the opinion that this split in behavior caused more confusion than it did good though - so there's a good chance we might actually update all systems with HWE this time around.
In any event you can install HWE using the command you mentioned and it'll be fine.

nharvey wrote:Is this recommended in Neon, or does pkcon / Discover pull in these updates differently?

The command you posted works as well, you can also use pkcon of course. Either is fine in this case.

Thanks both for the feedback. I think I'll give it a go, installing with the pkcon method

Nick

One word of caution based on my experience with the hardware ennoblement stack, i.e., for users with amdgpu hardware installed. In my case the updated kernel and X display drivers appeared to be OK, but upon logging out and later logging in to the system, the display would crash (black screen). I would then have to blindly switch tty to ctl-alt-f2 and reboot from the console (also still black screen). After several cycles of this my bios settings got corrupted and after fixing that issue, I restored my OS partitions from yesterday's backup.

@dbergstein

Rebooting without visible screen content:

SystemSettings->
Shortcuts->
GlobalShortcuts->
ksmserver->
RebootWithoutConfirmation->

==>Ctrl+Alt+Shift+PgUp<==

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Regarding the rest of Your message:
I don't/won't contradict.

Thanks for mentioning the facts and possibilities.

dbergstein wrote:One word of caution based on my experience with the hardware ennoblement stack, i.e., for users with amdgpu hardware installed. In my case the updated kernel and X display drivers appeared to be OK, but upon logging out and later logging in to the system, the display would crash (black screen). I would then have to blindly switch tty to ctl-alt-f2 and reboot from the console (also still black screen). After several cycles of this my bios settings got corrupted and after fixing that issue, I restored my OS partitions from yesterday's backup.

I've not had any problems with the HWE stack so far on my Radeon RX460.

nharvey wrote:

dbergstein wrote:One word of caution based on my experience with the hardware ennoblement stack, i.e., for users with amdgpu hardware installed. In my case the updated kernel and X display drivers appeared to be OK, but upon logging out and later logging in to the system, the display would crash (black screen). I would then have to blindly switch tty to ctl-alt-f2 and reboot from the console (also still black screen). After several cycles of this my bios settings got corrupted and after fixing that issue, I restored my OS partitions from yesterday's backup.

I've not had any problems with the HWE stack so far on my Radeon RX460.

I have an RX460 as well. Perhaps my issue is the combination of the RX460 and older hardware.