ja xegou o novo kernel linux 3.17-rc1

Instalação

Para sistemas de 32 bits              

Faça o download dos pacotes .deb. 

e a seguir va ao  https://www.kernel.org/

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$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17-rc1-utopic/linux-headers-3.17.0-031700rc1_3.17.0-031700rc1.201408161335_all.deb $ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17-rc1-utopic/linux-headers-3.17.0-031700rc1-generic_3.17.0-031700rc1.201408161335_i386.deb $ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17-rc1-utopic/linux-image-3.17.0-031700rc1-generic_3.17.0-031700rc1.201408161335_i386.deb

Instalá-los. 

 $ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.17*.deb linux-image-3.17*.deb 

Para sistemas de 64 bits

Faça o download dos pacotes .deb. 

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 $ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17-rc1-utopic/linux-headers-3.17.0-031700rc1_3.17.0-031700rc1.201408161335_all.deb $ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17-rc1-utopic/linux-headers-3.17.0-031700rc1-generic_3.17.0-031700rc1.201408161335_amd64.deb $ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17-rc1-utopic/linux-image-3.17.0-031700rc1-generic_3.17.0-031700rc1.201408161335_amd64.deb 

depois

$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.17*.deb linux-image-3.17*.deb

depois faça o reboot

sudo reboot 

senao gostar  desistale o kernel

 sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-3.17* linux-image-3.17*