On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 7:04 AM o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> wrote: > > Greetings > > The last kernel where I had almost no issues with my monitors not > being willing to un-sleep was 5.4.0-4 (Debian testing). I, foolishly, > used autoremove which removed all kernels older than 5.10.1 or some > such. The newer kernels are really not helping matters. > > Some I come to the nub of the problem - - - - - Debian repositories do > not seem to have anything like a 5.4.xx kernel available anymore. The > kernel.org website lists, today anyway, 5.4.100 as not only current > but that the 5.4.xx kernel is a LTS version with support to Dec 2025 > (that's definitely a ways out there and only some 3 years past the EOL > of 5.10.x). > > Searching for a procedure what I'm finding is most on installing a > newer kernel, say from unstable or even experimental, then there are a > very small number of how tos which are just about downloading > something that is still in the repositories. Last, and in smallest > numbers, are those that suggest compiling this kernel is the 'what to > do'. > > This kernel downgrading and/or kernel compiling is something I really > haven't even wanted to do and not finding any reasonably current (less > than 3 years old) information has me concerned. > > Does anyone have a cheat sheet for this kernel compiling (and > installing) or is there something else that can be done? > > Please advise. I have been able to find at: https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.4.101/amd64/ copies of all of linux - headers, -image and -modules. Might this be a possible solution short of compiling a kernel? TIA