Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 06:35:30AM -0400, 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 general, I'd really suggest running the latest Debian stable.
>
> 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.
>
Intel firmware needed as others have suggested.
>
> This system is used in an offline application, and I'm not ready to
> upgrade to Debian 11 at this time.
>
>
> Thanks, Allen
>
> Please CC me. I only get the debian-digest mailings
>
With every good wish, as ever,
Andy Cater
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