Delay kernel 5.10?

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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That is not correct. With stable release from 30. December Manjaro started using kernel 5.10

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Manjaro is running the 5.10 kernel on my wife’s laptop and it doesn’t work.
The screen is unreadable and therefore she is running the 5.4

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OK. I checked my Manjaro now and got this after that sudo pacman -Syu reported I had nothing to do. Something must be going wrong or they protect me… :smile:

roger@roger-lenovo ~]$ uname -a 
Linux roger-lenovo 5.9.16-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 21 22:00:46 UTC 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[roger@roger-lenovo ~]$

[roger@roger-lenovo ~]$ LANG=C sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do
[roger@roger-lenovo ~]$
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Indeed. 5.10 after 5.10.3 just doesn’t work for me.

Having searched around it seems t obe a well known problem and the solutions are two:
Stick with the 5.4.x LTS or move to the experimental 5.11.x. Ironically both seems equally stable compared to 5.10.x. (I have opted for the LTS).

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Interesting. So basically the NVIDIA problems are unsolvable in 5.10 then since they recommend removing the propitary drivers if moving to 5.10.

Good to know.

Ironically apparently NVIDIA have put real effort into making their drivers work well on 5.11, so if you run an NVIDIA card the lesson here is to first move to 5.4 LTS and as soon as 5.10 LTS is released abandon the LTS and go to the newest possible kernel until 5.10 no longer is LTS.

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Nothing wrong.
Manjaro is not automatically updating from one kernel subversion to the next. You need to trigger the step 5.9 to 5.10 manually with the mhwd-kernel tool they provide. If you do not do that you will remain on 5.9 forever.

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I have an NVIDIA discrete card and had used it with Bumblebee and nvidia drivers without problems till 5.10.

So, I shall be careful to jump directly from 5.4 lts to 5.11 to avoid a possible pitfall with 5.10 lts

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@mbod

Thanks for the explanation. I am just a very casual user of Manjaro. Well, this non-automatic update suits me perfectly. As said above, I’ll keep out of 5.10 and wait the arrival of 5.11.

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My model is a 1050, one of the models mentioned in the list on the Manjaro link as recommended to switch the free drivers in 5.10.

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roger@roger-lenovo ~]$ inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] driver: N/A 
  Device-3: Acer EasyCamera type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: modesetting 
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.3 
[roger@roger-lenovo ~]$
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Same as me.
But I have big problems with it after kernel 5.10.3.

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Okay, went back to the nouveau drivers since I am not gaming on this setup (I dual boot specifically for games) and put the newest kernel back. Let’s see if this behaves, now.