Re: Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)
Avoid the mistake I made. Along with your install media, get all the
firmware drivers for your flavor of hardware and have them on hand
expecting to use them to install your system. I didn't earlier and
couldn't wipe windows vista off a dell laptop. Some ambiguity in terms
of firmware requirements might be resolved if the installer program for
debian told the user if there was any hardware for which no debian
firmware exists and also told the installer in the other case that
package's x and y are needed and once these become available system
installation should not have any further missing firmware issues. My
case with the intel dell laptop was that non-free drivers were needed
and the installer couldn't get them but I didn't find out which packages
to download from the installer. What I may do the next time I take a
crack at that laptop is to find and use the firmware distribution of
debian iso if it still exists, if that can come up talking when I do the
install.
On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, Neal Murphy wrote:
> On Monday, November 11, 2013 09:28:26 PM Jon N wrote:
> > Neal,
> >
> > Well, I think you've found my weak point. I have been looking at
> > fairly new stuff. When shopping for processors I found there was
> > little difference in price between Intel's Haswell verses Ivy Bridge
> > (at least for Pentiums, which what I'm thinking of getting). So the
> > mainboards have new chipsets (either H81 or H87). Is the chipset an
> > issue?
>
> It can be. If the chipset isn't supported, the kernel mayn't know to or know
> how to walk the device tree, or simply know how, to initialize all the buses,
> bridges, and devices. Alas, I was unable to find any document anywhere that
> states which chipsets (even just the 20 newest) that a kernel supports when I
> looked 2-4 years ago.
>
>
>
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