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Re: Changing hardware

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On 08/03/2022 23:00, 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/
> <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?

You could have purchased Radeon GPU... Now you will be on mercy of
Nvidia to provide you with up to date, and compatible non-free firmware
for your GPU. Radeon on the other hand, are always up to date, and
always free, as drivers for that GPU are built in the kernel.

Anyway, these steps will sort you out:
Upgrade to Debian 11.
There is two additional steps you can do after that if you want to
install non-free firmware for your new computer:

amd64-microcode package for newest CPU microcode from AMD

nvidia-detect package: run nvidia-detect tool and it will tell you which
nvidia driver package you need to install to have proprietary driver for
your GPU.

That's about it.

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With kindest regards, Piotr.

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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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