Re: Changing hardware

From	Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Changing hardware
Date	2022-03-09 01:00 +0100
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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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Changing hardware James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> - 2022-03-09 00:10 +0100
  Re: Changing hardware piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-09 00:20 +0100
    Re: Changing hardware Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2022-03-09 05:40 +0100
      Re: Changing hardware piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-09 08:20 +0100
        Re: Changing hardware Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2022-03-09 10:30 +0100
          Re: Changing hardware James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> - 2022-03-10 14:40 +0100
  Re: Changing hardware Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-03-09 01:00 +0100

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