I just noticed that Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS was recently released.
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS also brings an updated hardware enablement stack (HWE). This is composed of a newer Linux kernel and updated graphics drivers—Linux 6.11 and Mesa 24.2.8 respectively—back-ported from Ubuntu 24.10.
Kernel and graphics changes provide some opportunities for hardware transcoding problems. Anyone know if it is safe to update? Any benefit to updating? @ChuckPa ?
If you have newer hardware (I’d say TigerLake and above) which benefits from HWE and 6.11 then ok.
I have an older Xeon E6-2690v4. I am still using 22.04, non HWE, with it.
I tried 24.04 HWE and it had a lot of problems ( I rebuilt the server last week - Fresh installation from scratch as I switched from LXD → Incus )
My desktop (AlderLake) is also 22.04 (strictly for the GUI) and is doing well with HWE and the 6.8 kernel.
I’m slow to change and not prone to change unless I have a need to.
I have a Dell R620 with a PERC6 raid card. I can install Ubuntu 20 and then release-upgrade to 22 but when upgrading to 24 it breaks and can not see drives. I can not install from 22. I have to install 20 and then do-release-upgrade. I am guessing they dropped driver for PERC6?? I get errors like the following:
DMR: DRHD: hanling fault status reg 202
DMR: [DMA Read NO_PASSID] Request device [03:00.0] fault addr 0x7d43c000 [fault reason 0x06] PTE Read access is not set.
it then goes to (initramfs).
So newer hardware may be okay. but my old server that I use in lab is a no go unless I can figure out how to get past this a load a working driver.
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