Please forgive me if these questions is already answered: (Ubuntu Studio 12.10 32-bit on Toshiba Sattelite p850 laptop) It seems that after the last updates my machine is now running the generic kernel 3.5.0-33 by default. This seems to have broken JACK, which was running without problems for a long time. So I have the following questions: - How do I "downgrade" so that the 3.5.0-31-lowlatency kernel becomes my default setting?

- Why does Ubuntu Studio bother with the generic kernel anyway?

On 02. juni 2013 01:32, Len Ovens wrote: Thank you! Makes me wonder how the generic kernel entered my system, then, but not enough to investigate! I'll just remove the generics... As for upgrade vs fresh install I never managed one successful upgrade (OK, maybe I tried just twice ;-) ) so I prefer the fresh install. Though I've broken a bone or two by leaving all the config files on my home partition and then installing on the root partition. WOW, can it break things...

On Sun, June 2, 2013 2:40 am, david wrote: Good to know. I am not sure what debian's release schedule is, but the freeze seems to be a lot longer than Ubuntu does. That would give more time for testing. Also UbuntuStudio is a) a very small team. b) a very different install. That is, the mix of applications and their attached libs is greater than any other ubuntu. I have found it very frustrating that something simple like a video player needs to be switched almost every release to find one that works. I would like to concentrate the creative SW, but find that the basic desktop needs fixing more often. I am quite excited though, about the idea of dropping Studio on top of any Ubuntu flavour. A small installer would allow the user to choose just the workflow they want and install that and the lowlatency kernel. It would also install a more organized menu for the creative workflows (I used to have a "multimedia" menu that I had to scroll all over to find anything) For those DEs that still think in those terms (and are XDG compliant). For those interested, the menu package should work well on any distro, ubuntu or not, so long as it uses the XDG style of doing menus. Unity and Gnome Shell are the noted ones that don't really think in terms of menus any more. I think Gnome Shell does have a menu option though. Unity does not and besides it seems Unity has proven not to amiable to audio use for many people anyway. When I have it finished and tested, I will post the download site.

I've tried upgrading Ubuntu from one version to the next, and pretty much had no success. So with Ubuntu, I prefer a fresh install. Debian's been no problem at all with upgrades. Even successfully changed from stable to sid once simply by changing my repositories. Upgraded Sid on my desktop machine today, 440+ upgraded packages, and it works flawlessly.

On 06/02/2013 05:06 AM, Len Ovens wrote:

Hmm, haven't encountered that. But Mplayer's my player of choice.

Debian's been no problem at all with upgrades. Even successfully changed from stable to sid once simply by changing my repositories.

Upgraded Sid on my desktop machine today, 440+ upgraded packages, and it works flawlessly.

Debian's been no problem at all with upgrades. Even successfully changed from stable to sid once simply by changing my repositories. Upgraded Sid on my desktop machine today, 440+ upgraded packages, and it works flawlessly.

I always do a backup first. Have had trivial things like changes in X video drivers make X unusable. I usually just upgrade what I want when I want.

So how does one downgrade? That I haven't figured out.