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Re: bpo kernel 4.7 broken? Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s

From Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marchal@wowtechnology.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: bpo kernel 4.7 broken? Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s
Date 2016-11-28 16:10 +0100
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On Tuesday 29 November 2016 02:22:40 Richard Hector wrote:
> On 26/11/16 14:27, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, Celejar wrote:
> >> > applications and a few things from backports. I'm currently running
> >> > kernel 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 from backports.
> > 
> > Don't.  That kernel is very broken.  Switch to the latest 4.8 kernel
> > available from either unstable or kernel.org, or compile the latest
> > 4.4-longterm kernel from kernel.org.
> 
> Woah. I was just about to install that. Am I ok, and better off,
> sticking with the 4.6 bpo kernel?

I had no joy with kernel 4.7 from backports on my HP ProBook 650.

The Broadcom-sta-dkms package is not available for that kernel version. So, no 
wireless network.

Moreover, the computer would frequently freeze during start up.

Frederic

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Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-11-25 21:00 +0100
  Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-11-26 02:30 +0100
    bpo kernel 4.7 broken? Re: Some function keys not working on a  ThinkPad W550s Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2016-11-28 14:30 +0100
      Re: bpo kernel 4.7 broken? Re: Some function keys not working on a  ThinkPad W550s Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-11-28 15:40 +0100
      Re: bpo kernel 4.7 broken? Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marchal@wowtechnology.com> - 2016-11-28 16:10 +0100
    Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-11-28 20:20 +0100
    Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-01-12 20:00 +0100

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