Downgrade kernel from previous fedora version

Hello,
I’m having massive graphic glitches and issues with the intel gpu driver since switching from F31 to F33. I don’t seem to be alone with this and apparently one of the last kernel updates fixed this for a lot of people. While the issues got better on my machine, I still experience graphic glitches up to complete freezes.
Anyway, so much for background information. Unfortunately I had my old kernel versions since deleted by updates. So my question is, is there a way to install an older kernel (from F31, F32) on F33 through dnf so I can boot into it without doing too much damage? I don’t really like the thought of having to compile one myself.

Thanks so much in advance,
Chris

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you can download the kernel from koji:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8

and install it via DNF

for example:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1715698

you can freeze this kernel with, because you can only keep 3 kernels you can see this in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

sudo dnf versionlock add kernel-5.10.19-100.fc32

when you boot press shift key and select this kernel because grub menu is hidden by default…

References

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/hidden-grub-menu-in-fedora-30/680

Regards.,

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Awesome, thanks for the fast and great reply!

The downgrade worked, I’ll have to see about the issues. Somehow I thought there might be more to it when jumping over releases for packages.

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