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Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware

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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-

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Debian 9 on H410 hardware altech@emypeople.net - 2021-10-21 13:10 +0200
  Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-10-21 14:30 +0200
    Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-21 15:30 +0200
      Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-10-21 19:00 +0200
        Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware / Upgraded to 11 - Zenity width quirk Allen Hoover <altech@emypeople.net> - 2021-11-17 17:00 +0100
          Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware / Upgraded to 11 - Zenity width quirk David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-17 17:10 +0100
            Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware / Upgraded to 11 - Zenity width quirk Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-11-17 20:40 +0100
          Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware / Upgraded to 11 - Zenity width quirk Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-17 17:10 +0100
    Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware Allen Hoover <altech@emypeople.net> - 2021-10-21 15:30 +0200
  Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-21 15:00 +0200
  Re: Debian 9 on H410 hardware "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-10-21 17:40 +0200

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