Re: Preliminary hardware support status report - one week before the release of Debian 11
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 06:12:54AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 11/8/21 11:03 pm, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote:
> > The report is now available in Debian Salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/linuxhw/TestCoverage/-/tree/main/Dist/Debian_11
> >
> > > Hello all!
> > >
> > > See report here [1]. We have ~400 computers tested on Debian 11 at the moment. 10% of them are probed from LiveCDs, others are installed systems.
> > >
> > > The main goal of the report is to make sure that we have not lost support for any hardware configuration classes. To achieve this, I compared it with the similar report for Debian 10 [2] in order to find significant discrepancies. Good news that we've covered all hardware classes tested on Debian 10 and differences in statistical indicators are relatively small. Particularly, I don't see any noticeable regression in use of AMD or NVIDIA graphics cards [3]. Either affected graphics cards are rare or people do not have problems with installing additional firmware packages.
> > >
> > > Report details and logs (Xorg, dmesg, etc.) are available in the full-feature report [4].
> > >
> > > Thanks to all for participating in the report! Looking forward to get more Debian hardware probes from the community to monitor hardware support status and trends.
> > >
> > > [1] https://github.com/linuxhw/TestCoverage/tree/main/Dist/Debian_11
> > > [2] https://github.com/linuxhw/TestCoverage/tree/main/Dist/Debian_10
> > > [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2021/04/msg00646.html
> > > [4] https://linux-hardware.org/?view=trends&rel=debian-11
> >
>
>
> So, because I can't find it in the document, does Debian 11 support nVIDIA
> Optimus?
>
> And, does Debian 11 support the Intel i7 Haskell architecture?
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
> ..............
>
Optimus - yes - but you might need to jump through hoops. On laptops with
Optimus, I found it easiest to install a bare text install first - no X, no
GUI, then install the bumblebee package then install the prerequisites
for any Nvidia driver. Only after that with all the bits in place,
install a desktop using tasksel.
If you're happy to use nouveau, then it's bumblebee. If you need to use
the proprietary driver it's bumblebee-nvidia you need.
It was painful to go through it all with nouveau only to discover laptop
lockups and that I'd have to start again with the proprietary drivers.
Try a couple fo test installs and good luck.
All the very best,
Andy Cater
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