New(er) kernel RPMs?

[Michael B Allen]

I just got a Dell Latitude E7470. Mostly works with the latest Fedora live.

However, attaching an external monitor to the HDMI port hangs the
machine. I've been using Linux as my primary machine long enough to
know that it smells very much like a driver issue and that the only
way I'm going to get it to work is to try a newer kernel. So ...

Are there any vaguely official RPMs for new(er) kernels?

If not, what is the path-of-least-resistance for building a new(er)
kernel? I can google as well as anybody but if there's a definitive
way, I would appreciate any pointers.

Mike

[Frederic Muller]

On 10/18/2016 08:56 AM, Michael B Allen wrote:
> I just got a Dell Latitude E7470. Mostly works with the latest Fedora live.
>
> However, attaching an external monitor to the HDMI port hangs the
> machine. I've been using Linux as my primary machine long enough to
> know that it smells very much like a driver issue and that the only
> way I'm going to get it to work is to try a newer kernel. So ...
>
> Are there any vaguely official RPMs for new(er) kernels?
>
> If not, what is the path-of-least-resistance for building a new(er)
> kernel? I can google as well as anybody but if there's a definitive
> way, I would appreciate any pointers.
>
> Mike
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Hi!

I've had a similar problem since Kernel 4.6.7 where any external screen
would not be detected. It now only occurs only with my TV. In those
instances where I want to use the TV I use Kernel 4.5.5. I filled a bug
which hasn't gotten much attention here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378686

Oh... and I have an Intel HD Graphics 5500.

If that helps.

Fred

[Eric Griffith]

You can always just setup the RawhideNoDebug repo, check the wiki.

Cheers!
Eric
> On Oct 17, 2016, at 22:10, Frederic Muller  wrote:
> > On 10/18/2016 08:56 AM, Michael B Allen wrote:
> > I just got a Dell Latitude E7470. Mostly works with the latest Fedora live.
> >
> > However, attaching an external monitor to the HDMI port hangs the
> > machine. I've been using Linux as my primary machine long enough to
> > know that it smells very much like a driver issue and that the only
> > way I'm going to get it to work is to try a newer kernel. So ...
> >
> > Are there any vaguely official RPMs for new(er) kernels?
> >
> > If not, what is the path-of-least-resistance for building a new(er)
> > kernel? I can google as well as anybody but if there's a definitive
> > way, I would appreciate any pointers.
> >
> > Mike
> > _______________________________________________
> > users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
>
> Hi!
>
> I've had a similar problem since Kernel 4.6.7 where any external screen
> would not be detected. It now only occurs only with my TV. In those
> instances where I want to use the TV I use Kernel 4.5.5. I filled a bug
> which hasn't gotten much attention here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378686
>
> Oh... and I have an Intel HD Graphics 5500.
>
> If that helps.
>
> Fred
> _______________________________________________
> users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]

[Ranjan Maitra]

If you want the latest, you can do what I have over the past few weeks been using: i.e. the vanilla kernels which are ahead of the official ones. I am pretty pleased with them. You can get it by following the instructions here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories

I have been using the vanilla stable kernel. It is currently at 4.8.1 and I expect that 4.8.2 will become available in a couple of days there.

Best wishes,
Ranjan

On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:22:44 -0400 Eric Griffith  wrote:
> You can always just setup the RawhideNoDebug repo, check the wiki.
>
> Cheers!
> Eric
> > On Oct 17, 2016, at 22:10, Frederic Muller  wrote:
> > > On 10/18/2016 08:56 AM, Michael B Allen wrote:
> > > I just got a Dell Latitude E7470. Mostly works with the latest Fedora live.
> > >
> > > However, attaching an external monitor to the HDMI port hangs the
> > > machine. I've been using Linux as my primary machine long enough to
> > > know that it smells very much like a driver issue and that the only
> > > way I'm going to get it to work is to try a newer kernel. So ...
> > >
> > > Are there any vaguely official RPMs for new(er) kernels?
> > >
> > > If not, what is the path-of-least-resistance for building a new(er)
> > > kernel? I can google as well as anybody but if there's a definitive
> > > way, I would appreciate any pointers.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> > > To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've had a similar problem since Kernel 4.6.7 where any external screen
> > would not be detected. It now only occurs only with my TV. In those
> > instances where I want to use the TV I use Kernel 4.5.5. I filled a bug
> > which hasn't gotten much attention here:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378686
> >
> > Oh... and I have an Intel HD Graphics 5500.
> >
> > If that helps.
> >
> > Fred
> > _______________________________________________
> > users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]

[JD]

On 10/17/2016 07:56 PM, Michael B Allen wrote:
> I just got a Dell Latitude E7470. Mostly works with the latest Fedora live.
>
> However, attaching an external monitor to the HDMI port hangs the
> machine. I've been using Linux as my primary machine long enough to
> know that it smells very much like a driver issue and that the only
> way I'm going to get it to work is to try a newer kernel. So ...
>
> Are there any vaguely official RPMs for new(er) kernels?
>
> If not, what is the path-of-least-resistance for building a new(er)
> kernel? I can google as well as anybody but if there's a definitive
> way, I would appreciate any pointers.
>
> Mike

Generally speaking, having used linux since 1989-1990,
I can say it is a poor player with multi-display environments.
Sadly, Windoze seems to do a better job at this.

[stan]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:56:10 -0400
Michael B Allen  wrote:
> I just got a Dell Latitude E7470. Mostly works with the latest Fedora
> live.
>
> However, attaching an external monitor to the HDMI port hangs the
> machine. I've been using Linux as my primary machine long enough to
> know that it smells very much like a driver issue and that the only
> way I'm going to get it to work is to try a newer kernel. So ...
>
> Are there any vaguely official RPMs for new(er) kernels?
>
> If not, what is the path-of-least-resistance for building a new(er)
> kernel? I can google as well as anybody but if there's a definitive
> way, I would appreciate any pointers.

This is where all Fedora kernels are born:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8
If you download an rpm, you can install it with dnf -C [kernel package],
*providing* that its dependencies are met on your Fedora version.

This is how to compile a kernel from the src.rpm found at the above
link.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel

I don't do it that way since I've been doing it for a while, and have
learned an alternate way that used to be suggested.

But, that said, are you sure you need to do this?  I don't run multiple
monitors, but if you give some specifics, it might turn out that
someone else can suggest a boot configuration or X configuration
adjustment that will work.