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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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From the news in the media about the 4.15 kernel it is starting to sound (to me) like one should consider skipping the 4.14 kernel and wait for 4.15 which will have better AMD CPU, GPU and audio support.
It will also offer improvements for NVMe and the newer Intel chips.
Last edited by cwizardone; 11-19-2017 at 09:34 AM.
From the news in the media about the 4.15 kernel it is starting to sound (to me) like one should consider skipping the 4.14 kernel and wait for 4.15 which will have better AMD CPU, GPU and audio support.
It will also offer improvements for NVMe and the newer Intel chips.
I expected this to be the case. Since 4.14 was expected to be the LTS, I imagine the desired stability of an LTS probably prevented a lot of PRs from getting submitted/accepted.
There's over 500,000 lines of new code in 4.15, and *only* 130,000 of that is for amdgpu. There's another week until the merge window closes. It's quite list of changes so far.
Ah! Good catch on the guest additions. I'll try to re-install the guest additions this evening to see if that takes care of it. It was mostly to show that I didn't have boot issues and that it does actually run the OS, even without guest additions loaded.
Distribution: VM Host: Slackware-current, VM Guests: Artix, Venom, antiX, Gentoo, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenIndiana
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Ah! Good catch on the guest additions. I'll try to re-install the guest additions this evening to see if that takes care of it. It was mostly to show that I didn't have boot issues and that it does actually run the OS, even without guest additions loaded.
Actually running linux-4.14 as VB Guest never was a problem (with VB 5.2.1). No patching required.
After upgrading to 4.14.1 this morning, all is well with VBox again.
Haven't upgraded yet, but I was going to mention that test build VirtualBox 5.2.1-119176 fixed the problem with 4.14.0. I was unable to build the modules before that.
Haven't upgraded yet, but I was going to mention that test build VirtualBox 5.2.1-119176 fixed the problem with 4.14.0. I was unable to build the modules before that.
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