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Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.



On Wed, 24 May 2017, Felix Miata wrote:
> Once upon a time, Intel gfx did not need any firmware that was not part of a
> default or minimal installation. :-(

Nowadays it may actually requires BIOS/UEFI _and_ processor microcode
updates as well.

The BIOS/UEFI updates work around issues related to power management and
suspend/resume.  The microcode updates fix internal CPU to iGPU
low-level issues that typically results in processor hangs, or iGPU
misbehavior.

-- 
  Henrique Holschuh


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