Since ATI is no longer supporting fglrx
drivers for my multiple ATI Radeon HD 6870 video cards running in tandem after version 14.04.2, I need to hold version 14.04.2 with no updates to the kernel or to xorg for the foreseeable future. I still want to perform updates & upgrades to non-related packages.
I know that I can hold the kernel at the current version with the following command:
echo linux-image-generic-lts-utopic hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
in order to the 'ii' to 'hi' and prevent an update with dpkg.
My two questions are, with this be a sufficient method to lock down the kernel, and how can I do the same thing and lock down the current xorg drivers as follows?
echo xserver-xorg-core-lts-utopic hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
EDIT:
So that's what I did... Fresh 14.04.2 Install & put holds on the following:
echo linux-image-generic-lts-utopic hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo xserver-xorg-core-lts-utopic hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
and for good measure I also included...
echo xserver-xorg-lts-utopic hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo xorg hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
After performing and update & upgrade is seemed to have worked. About to install the last version of the fglrx
drivers from the AMD website and will report the results.