Best way to revert to 3.8 kernel?

[Rick Mann]

I've currently got the debian-7.7 image flashed onto my BBB. What's the best way to revert to a 3.8 kernel? Can I just install the older kernel and reboot? I saw a message yesterday that showed someone apt-get the 3.8 kernel. I didn't know that was possible, and I can't find it now. Can anyone enlighten me?

Does downgrading from 3.14 to 3.8 cause the rest of Debian to have issues?

Much appreciated!

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Rick Mann
rm...@latencyzero.com

[Robert Nelson]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote:
> I've currently got the debian-7.7 image flashed onto my BBB. What's the best way to revert to a 3.8 kernel? Can I just install the older kernel and reboot? I saw a message yesterday that showed someone apt-get the 3.8 kernel. I didn't know that was possible, and I can't find it now. Can anyone enlighten me?

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.8.13-bone68
sudo reboot

> Does downgrading from 3.14 to 3.8 cause the rest of Debian to have issues?

Nope. 3.8 is still "supported" usb/ethernet/video/sgx just works
better in v3.14.x..

Regards,

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Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

[Rick Mann]

Thanks for the reassurance. 3.8 works MUCH better for me in two areas. ADC, of course, and my audio playback via USB dongle is no longer glitchy. I don't know how to go about debugging this, but something's up with 3.14.

Do I need to do something to get dev header files in line with 3.8?


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Rick Mann
rm...@latencyzero.com

[Robert Nelson]

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`