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Kernels from unofficial user repo

I would like to know if there is anything different about the official artix kernels as compared to one from the arch unofficial user repo "linux-lts"?
I am having wifi issues on all version 6 and up kernels and would therefore like to use an older lts kernel version.

Ty for any advice/info.

Best regards. 
We should try to be kind to everyone.....we are all fighting some sort of battle.

Re: Kernels from unofficial user repo

Reply #2 –
I've used that repo before and it worked OK. Some of the oldest kernels gave me some non-critical issues but I think that could have been because they were so old and running with otherwise new software. You might need to edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf to get rid of the zstd image compression, which wasn't supported before 5.10 or something like that:
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# COMPRESSION
# Use this to compress the initramfs image. By default, zstd compression
# is used. Use 'cat' to create an uncompressed image.
#COMPRESSION="zstd"
#COMPRESSION="gzip"
#COMPRESSION="bzip2"
#COMPRESSION="lzma"
#COMPRESSION="xz"
#COMPRESSION="lzop"
COMPRESSION="lz4"
lz4 gives better performance apparently so is a good alternative regardless, unless space is a problem in your boot partition, and is backwards compatible too.
You can also get old Artix kernels from the Artix package archive:
https://archive.artixlinux.org/
I see an Artix linux-lts 5.4 in here, I think that's the oldest one:
https://archive.artixlinux.org/repos/2021/02/01/system/os/x86_64/
And you can compare kernel config for various kernels by unzipping /proc/config.gz which gives the config options for the currently running kernel, using "diff" or something like that.
But be careful of LTS kernels when comparing versions, because some selected newer patches get backported into them - to find a last known good version you are better off using old regular release non-LTS packages if you can. Arch Linux also has a package archive which goes back further than the Artix one and you can get kernels from that too.

Re: Kernels from unofficial user repo

Reply #3 –
Thanks for the great info  I don't think it's a configuration issue because kernels older than 6 work ok. I will try an older regular release kernel. Thanks for the heads up on the backported patches with the lts kernels.

Best regards
We should try to be kind to everyone.....we are all fighting some sort of battle.

Re: Kernels from unofficial user repo

Reply #4 –
Quote from: conky60 – on
I don't think it's a configuration issue ...

Even if it is not a configuration problem, it would not be a mistake to tell us exactly what hardware it is.   ;)
"Wer alles kann, macht nichts richtig"

Artix USE="runit openrc slim openbox lxde gtk2 qt4 qt5 qt6 conky
-gtk3 -gtk4 -adwaita{cursors,themes,icons} -gnome3 -kde -plasma -wayland "