Disable HWE and continue with GA kernal of 16.04?

Question

My Laptop is very old and doesn't need support for new hardware. Updating to new kernel releases has made me 2nd monitor not to work. How can I opt out of HWE and stay with 5years supported kernel? I don't need new Linux kernels every 6months or so. In server installations GA kernel is the default, is there any option like that in desktop(laptop) version. Please help.

Solution

If you want the ga kernel, install the linux-generic kernel packages and then remove the linux-generic-hwe-16.04 kernel packages.

Reference: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/RollingLTSEnablementStack

Comments

[WinEunuuchs2Unix]

You can pick the kernel version you like and freeze the system there. I believe it is called apt pinning but on my phone now.

[RamKiran Kesana]

Thanks, I had installed ga kernel successfully (using sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-xenial linux-generic-lts-xenial ) and just want to keep hwd kernel. Can i create separate GRUB entries for ga and hwe kernel like Ubuntu_ga and Ubuntu_hwd ( grub customizer could be used but i guess i have to change entries every time kernel updates )

[NessDan]

Apologies, but can you give insight into how to do that? Like a step-by-step?

[Organic Marble]

@NessDan step-by-step answers would be for 16.04, which is probably not what you want. Best to ask a new question, specifying what version of Ubuntu you are using.