[solved] What version of the kernel is available in unstable?

[PsychoHermit]

Greetings folks,

What version of the kernel is available in unstable?

My sound card in not supported in the testing kernel, and I want to try the unstable kernel hoping that it will support my sound card. I've been searching for ways to list the packages available in unstable, and not having any luck.

Actually it would be even better if someone knows how to query apt to find the version of the kernel that's available. That way I could upgrade my kernel when a new version is available.

Thanks in advance,
--glenn

[sunrat]

Currently it's the same as the Testing kernel. You can always check at https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw ... mage-amd64

[PsychoHermit]

Sunrat,

Thank you very much. now I can check it now and then to see if it's been updated.

--glenn

[sickie]

A new version has just been released. I am running it and as of yet it runs great. It's 6.6.8. They also changed the way versioning works and it finally shows the correct version of the kernel instead of Debian's version (like for previous kernel it showed 6.5.0-5 instead of 6.5.13). Tho this might be an oversight in packaging and later it will revert to showing Debian's version instead of actual version.

[stevepusser]

If your sound card still doesn't work, I would try the Liquorix kernel, since they enable more hardware in the configs than Debian. Or possibly you may have some missing firmware issue, but it's hard to determine without any info on the hardware.

I've managed to backport the new Sid 6.6.8 kernel for MX 23 in generic Bookworm build environments, but as is, it fails for Bullseye, due to requiring python 3.11 for some of the new versioning "operations" quite a ways into the build. I have a pretty good lead on fixing that today, though. I also managed to speed up the build by disabling the rt realtime kernel builds, since Liquorix is a pretty good replacement for those on the desktop (not for real realtime, though, like CNC machining!)