[12:01] <cascardo> locutus_: hi, there. any plans on updating bionic virtualbox and virtualbox-hwe to work with linux-hwe 5.3 ?
[14:03] <locutus_> cascardo, the packages in updates already work with kernel 5.3?
[14:03] <locutus_> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1847662
[14:47] <cascardo> locutus_: hum, it seems that ADT fails because...
[14:47] <cascardo> Error! Module version 5.2.34_Ubuntu for vboxguest.ko
[14:47] <cascardo> is not newer than what is already found in kernel 5.3.0-24-generic (6.0.14_Ubuntu).
[14:51] <locutus_> cascardo, we should fix dkms instead!
[15:43] <apw> cascardo, that is one of those ... we kinda expect that moments
[15:53] <cascardo> apw: what are you saying, should we fix dkms instead? :-)
[15:56] <apw> cascardo, well sort of, i am saying that test will always fail like that; it was one of teh reasons we started to look at an autohintere
[16:11] <zx2c4> apw: poke?
[16:23] <apw> zx2c4, s'up
[16:23] <zx2c4> still itching for a tree list
[16:23] <apw> zx2c4, ahh sorry just been burried, will try and get you something today
[16:25] <zx2c4> apw: cool
[16:25] <zx2c4> thnks
[18:22] <teratorn> on xenial does anyone have opinions or documentation on which kernel I should prefer? I can't use stock 4.4.0, because it lacks support for a particular watchdog timer hardware chip. but 4.8.0, 4.10.0 and 4.11.0 do support it. 4.13.0 and higher all exhibit a regression in the i915 driver (apparently) that causes screen corruption in X.
[18:24] <teratorn> this is for a kiosk application where stability is most important, and naively I would assume that the latest 4.11.0 package should be the one I prefer, but just wanted to check if anyone has any other info on xenial kernels
[19:06] <sarnold> teratorn: the newest 4.11 kernel provided by ubuntu hasn't been updated in two years. you probably don't want to use that.
[19:16] <teratorn> sarnold: interesting. how are you getting that info?
[19:18] <sarnold> teratorn: I've got a local archive mirror, which makes answering some of these questions way easier: http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/mvdn3PHbcg/
[19:22] <gpiccoli> teratorn, this is also a good resource: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support
[21:33] <cascardo> teratorn: also, we apply fixes on our kernels, so linux-hwe, which is at 4.15 on xenial, may work for you
[21:34] <cascardo> if the regression bug is present on that kernel, you can report a bug with the details you have about that regression
[23:33] <teratorn> cascardo: cool. it does happen with latest linux-image-4.15.0-73-generic