Mouse problems with 5.15.0-106 kernel?

[Adam Funk]

On 2024-05-15, Little Girl wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> Adam Funk wrote:
>
>>My system normally has two kernels available (the latest one
>>installed and the one installed before that). What I want to do is
>>make sure that the -105 version remains available even when an
>>upgrade pulls in a newer (than the -106) kernel. Then I can boot
>>into the new version, see if it works, and still have -105 as a
>>fallback. I think what I need to so is just set the -105 packages so
>>they are flagged as manually installed.
>
> The response by fkraiem on this page may be of use for that:
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/473356/how-to-keep-specific-old-kernel-on-my-next-kernel-upgrade

Thanks, I've bookmarked that one too.


> I should make a note of this for my own purposes, too. Once in a
> while, I come across a kernel that doesn't like my hardware. It never
> occurred to me that that even if I use a fallback kernel while that
> "bad" kernel is current, the "bad" kernel would still exist and would
> then become the new fallback the next time the kernel got upgraded,
> making the fallback useless.

I can't remember the previous time I had problems with the latest
kernel, so it must be rare.