Thanks all for your quick reply jeanbaptiste wrote:
> The best solution is to migrate your distribution to Stretch and leave Jessie. Result is perfect for me. I am going to try moving to Stretch. However I wanted to know your experience with Stretch. Is Stretch currently on unstable or testing stage. Do you get bugs while using it ? Can I also know the exact model of your Dell Inspiron laptop? With Kind Regards, Dwijesh On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:34 PM, mudongliang <mudonglianga...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > On 01/06/2016 04:11 PM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > Hello everyone and Happy New Year ! > > > > I got a new laptop Dell Inspiron 5559. The laptop has the new 6th > > generation Intel proceesor (Skylake) on it. After installing Debian 8 on > it > > I got issues with the display and there was no sound also. > > > > I wanted to update the kernel to version 4.3.3 to see if it solved the > > problem. > > > > Can you please tell me how to update the linux kernel on Debian? > > First , if you consist to Debian stable, you can add backports in you > sources.list. > The following kernel is from jessie-backports. > > linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64/stable,now 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 amd64 > [installed,automatic] > Linux 3.16 for 64-bit PCs > > linux-image-4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64/jessie-backports,jessie-backports > 4.2.6-3~bpo8+2 amd64 > Linux 4.2 for 64-bit PCs > > linux-image-4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64/jessie-backports,jessie-backports > 4.3.3-2~bpo8+1 amd64 > Linux 4.3 for 64-bit PCs > > The third kernel is suitable for you? > > Second, if you change the your sources to testing , or even unstable, > there are more kernels you can test. > > > - mudongliang > >
