Re: Changing hardware
James Allsopp wrote:
> Hi,
> My old core2 (8gb ram) died after a power cycle,so I bought an AMD Ryzen
> 5800 with 32Gb Ram and a new motherboard and a new nvidia graphics card.I
> converted the boot system over to EFI (
> https://blog.getreu.net/projects/legacy-to-uefi-boot/).
>
> I was going to upgrade to Debian 11 anyway, but is there a way to update
> all the drivers and kernel to reflect the new hardware?
>
Assuming you had a 64-bit kernel installed to begin with --
you probably did, the Core2 series supported that -- you don't
need a kernel change at all.
Drivers can be added easily: you should try nouveau first if
your card is supported, and if not, install the NVidia drivers.
-dsr-
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