Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 08:09:20AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 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-
The xserver-xorg-video-intel package description says use of it is
discouraged on hardware newer than 2007. I thought the built in
modesetting driver is used for intel hardware?
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