Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware
altech@emypeople.net wrote:
> In general I'm wondering if it is possible to upgrade an older Debian
> system to be compatible with newer hardware, without upgrading the whole
> system to a later Debian version?
>
>
> In particular, I'm wishing to get a Debian 9 system to run on an MSI
> H410M-PRO-C board, with an Intel Pentium G6405 CPU. Have updated to
> latest backport kernel, and firmware packages. For the most part
> everything works fine, however Xorg is falling back to using fbdev
> graphic driver.
>
>
> This system is used in an offline application, and I'm not ready to
> upgrade to Debian 11 at this time.
Do you have a backport xserver-xorg-video-intel ? That's usually
the determining factor for X11 issues like this.
The other thing would be -- have you explicitly set the driver
to be intel in xorg.conf?
If neither of those things work, you should upgrade to 10 and
then 11.
-dsr-
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