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kernel downgrade for Isdn and HiSax

Hi

i need a Linux with kernel <= 5.2, because  i want to run isdn4linux and HiSax (not for go online, but for call-logging)

can i downgrade the kernel  5.5 in artix-lxqt-openrc-20200211-x86_64.iso  to 5.2 ?
and where to get artix-lxqt-openrc-20200211-x86_64.iso now, and where to get the kernel 5.2 ( does any kernel work for artix?

kind regards

Re: kernel downgrade in artix-lxqt-openrc-20200211-x86_64.iso for Isdn and HiSax

Reply #1 –
No idea if you'd be able to get hold of a copy of the the older iso ?
There's https://archive.artixlinux.org which has older packages but does not have kernel packages as old as you require AFAICT.

So your best bet is probably https://gitea.artixlinux.org/packages/linux/commits/branch/master?page=8
You can clone that repo then checkout the relevant commit then build the kernel and headers packages yourself.

One caveat is that sometimes kernels don't like being compiled with a more modern GCC than was around when that kernel was current.
If you have base-devel and git installed already on the old install that won't be an issue (and may not be anyway, you'd just have to try it)

Re: kernel downgrade in artix-lxqt-openrc-20200211-x86_64.iso for Isdn and HiSax

Reply #2 –
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No idea if you'd be able to get hold of a copy of the the older iso ?
There's https://archive.artixlinux.org which has older packages but does not have kernel packages as old as you require AFAICT.
 

i checked there
 https://archive.artixlinux.org/packages/l/linux/ 
and under repos  but there is nothing older than kernel 5.10

Re: kernel downgrade in artix-lxqt-openrc-20200211-x86_64.iso for Isdn and HiSax

Reply #3 –
For the iso, try this search term on Yandex search engine, if you knew of an exact iso name with a 5.2 kernel already then you could search for that instead (the other search engines I tried weren't helpful in this case):
"artix-lxqt-openrc-20200211-x86_64.iso"
It showed me numerous old torrent downloads, although I haven't tested any of these, for example:
https://www.torrentfunk.com/torrent/32292078/artix-lxqt-openrc-20200211-x86_64.html
https://en.btdig.com/artix=lxqt=openrc=20200211=x86_64.iso
There is an even older 2018 iso on sourceforge here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/artix-linux/files/iso/base/archive/
Arch linux kernels usually work on Artix, and they have older ones in the Arch archive. With a kernel that old you'll need to remember the initcpio compression method changed to zstd and that isn't supported before around 5.10, more recently the firmware compression changed to zstd which isn't supported by older kernels either. So it depends on your start point and how far back you go, but there can be catches like that. With a few tweaks you could probably run a kernel that old on a current install too. There are old kernels in the AUR that will also work, I think I went back as far as a 4 series one a couple of years back on an otherwise up to date system.

looking for the first artix xfce build

Reply #4 –
Hi

i need a Linux with kernel <= 5.2, because  i want to run isdn4linux and HiSax (not for go online, but for call-logging)

Also i like xfce because its fast. was there  a build with xfce AND kernel <= 5.2 ?
And where is it to find?
kind regards

Re: looking for the first artix xfce build

Reply #5 –
Your only option honestly is to build linux-lts419 from aur, the next lts is 5.4 and it's not packaged by anyone either.

I have built 4.19 recently and i needed 2 things to make it boot: install linux-firmware-uncompressed (also from aur), and in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf don't use zstd for compression, pick gz or uncompressed.

LE: i don't see any historical builds around with xfce, just some with the base image but installing a desktop on that would not work.

Re: looking for the first artix xfce build

Reply #6 –
A bit of online searching found these :

https://archive.org/search?query=mediatype%3Asoftware%20AND%20collection%3Acdromimages%20AND%20subject%3A%22Artix%22

https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/torrents/

LXQT from 2018 is a shade older, late 4 series, 5.2 was mid 2019, and not quite XFCE but might be OK I guess, if you wanted a ready to use iso.

Old packaged kernels from the Arch or Artix repo will also work if you downgrade a few other things as Hitman suggests above..

Re: looking for the first artix xfce build

Reply #7 –
i tried LXQT from 2018 already but the GUIm is much less configurable ( i could not assign F1 for raise window) than xfce and it freezes  during my tests
thanks for the hint with archive - i did not know these options

@Hitman  what is aur ?
regards

Re: looking for the first artix xfce build

Reply #8 –
https://archive.org/details/artix-mate-lxde-openrc-community-20190609-x86_64
That could be another possibility. The live iso boots into LXDE but if you log out of the desktop you can them select Mate and log in again if I remember correctly. If you install you can just choose Mate, Mate is reasonably equivalent to XFCE in functionality and performance.

There are numerous old Manjaro-OpenRC iso's here, including XFCE desktop, this was Artix before it was called Artix dating from about 2015-2017, there are even 32 bit versions:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/manjaro-openrc/files/

Re: kernel downgrade in artix-lxqt-openrc-20200211-x86_64.iso for Isdn and HiSax

Reply #9 –
I tried the 2018 iso, first it looks nice, but after half an our the gui freezes!


the artix-lxqt-openrc-20200211-x86_64.html would be helpful, but i could not load from the torrent, tried many weeks.

what is the AUR  ?
regards