On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 11:47:27AM +0100, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía > Now, since Debian 11 was released earlier this year, I've been > testing its behaviour on the machine. Unfortunately, even with the > latest live image, including non-free firmware, the test is not > passed. The computer boots well and the graphical interface (I > tried my usual xfce, but also mate) appears neat and working. > However, after a few moments varying from few seconds to no more > than a couple of minutes, the system freezes completely. Impossible > to open a console, there is no answer at all, only physical > shutdown is possible.
On 26.12.21 16:41, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía wrote:
The computer has 8 Gb memory, a lot more than enough to load the image. The graphics are NVIDIA 4200M, with drivers provided, under Debian 10, by the legacy deb packages.
apparently this requires nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver and its dependencies. I have no idea if these are available on live CD.
Of course, I could try upgrading directly from Debian 10 and rely on the backups if something goes wrong. As said, I did that for previous releases... but only after having successfully made a test with the live image. But you gave me one idea: I'll try the “standard” live image, without any graphics and try to build from that to see what happens.
if you can make the live image to use nvidia-390x driver, it should work. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. Silvester Stallone: Father of the RISC concept.