Thank you Matus. I'll try first Andy recommendations: making a custom live image is out of reach to me, I'm afraid. Best, mol El Sun, 26 Dec 2021 17:41:09 +0100 Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk> escribió: > >> 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. >
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