Installing the latest kernel versions in Ubuntu and ubuntu-like, that’s how.<\/p>\n
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I have a new notebook, a Acemagic AX 15<\/a>. I wanted to install Linux on it. In my case, Linux Mint. Since the notebook has fairly new hardware, problems were to be expected, which was confirmed.<\/p>\nSound did not work and also the brightness control. Der neue Intel N95 Prozessor und Chipsatz halt. Hilft ein neuer Kernel? Vorneweg, ja hat geholfen! Nur wie installieren? This is where “Ubuntu Mainline Kernel” comes into play.<\/p>\n\n\nTable of content<\/p>\nToggle<\/span><\/path><\/svg><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\nVideo<\/a><\/li>Check current kernel version<\/a><\/li>Installing the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel<\/a><\/li>Install kernel<\/a><\/li>Reboot<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<\/span>Video<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Check_current_kernel_version\"><\/span>Check current kernel version<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In the first step, we can check which kernel version is installed. This can be done with the following command.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nuname -r\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>In the current Linux Mint, the 5.15 version is installed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"151\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_1.png 326w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_1-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Installing_the_Ubuntu_Mainline_Kernel\"><\/span>Installing the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To install the software, we first need to add the repository:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:cappelikan\/ppa\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Then we update the package sources:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo apt update\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Now we can install the software.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo apt install mainline\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Install_kernel\"><\/span>Install kernel<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We can now call up the software via the start menu. After a short wait, we see a list of available versions. I have simply installed the latest one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"841\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_2.png 841w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_2-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_2-768x231.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The kernel is now installed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"143\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_3.png 637w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_3-300x67.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Reboot\"><\/span>Reboot<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>After the installation, we reboot our system. After the reboot, the latest kernel should be running.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"152\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58635\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing the latest kernel versions in Ubuntu and ubuntu-like, that’s how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[3230,2443],"class_list":["post-58622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-instructions-en","tag-linux-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Sound did not work and also the brightness control. Der neue Intel N95 Prozessor und Chipsatz halt. Hilft ein neuer Kernel? Vorneweg, ja hat geholfen! Nur wie installieren? This is where “Ubuntu Mainline Kernel” comes into play.<\/p>\n
Table of content<\/p>\nToggle<\/span><\/path><\/svg><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\nVideo<\/a><\/li>Check current kernel version<\/a><\/li>Installing the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel<\/a><\/li>Install kernel<\/a><\/li>Reboot<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<\/span>Video<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Check_current_kernel_version\"><\/span>Check current kernel version<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In the first step, we can check which kernel version is installed. This can be done with the following command.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nuname -r\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>In the current Linux Mint, the 5.15 version is installed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"151\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_1.png 326w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_1-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Installing_the_Ubuntu_Mainline_Kernel\"><\/span>Installing the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To install the software, we first need to add the repository:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:cappelikan\/ppa\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Then we update the package sources:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo apt update\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Now we can install the software.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo apt install mainline\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Install_kernel\"><\/span>Install kernel<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We can now call up the software via the start menu. After a short wait, we see a list of available versions. I have simply installed the latest one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"841\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_2.png 841w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_2-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_2-768x231.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The kernel is now installed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"143\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_3.png 637w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_3-300x67.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Reboot\"><\/span>Reboot<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>After the installation, we reboot our system. After the reboot, the latest kernel should be running.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"152\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58635\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing the latest kernel versions in Ubuntu and ubuntu-like, that’s how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[3230,2443],"class_list":["post-58622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-instructions-en","tag-linux-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Check_current_kernel_version\"><\/span>Check current kernel version<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In the first step, we can check which kernel version is installed. This can be done with the following command.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nuname -r\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>In the current Linux Mint, the 5.15 version is installed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"151\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_1.png 326w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_1-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Installing_the_Ubuntu_Mainline_Kernel\"><\/span>Installing the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To install the software, we first need to add the repository:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:cappelikan\/ppa\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Then we update the package sources:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo apt update\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Now we can install the software.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo apt install mainline\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Install_kernel\"><\/span>Install kernel<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We can now call up the software via the start menu. After a short wait, we see a list of available versions. I have simply installed the latest one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"841\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_2.png 841w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_2-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_2-768x231.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The kernel is now installed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"143\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_3.png 637w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_3-300x67.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Reboot\"><\/span>Reboot<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>After the installation, we reboot our system. After the reboot, the latest kernel should be running.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/mainline_en_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"152\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58635\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing the latest kernel versions in Ubuntu and ubuntu-like, that’s how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[3230,2443],"class_list":["post-58622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-instructions-en","tag-linux-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}