On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 08:09:20AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > alt...@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-
The xserver-xorg-video-intel package description says use of it is discouraged on hardware newer than 2007. I thought the built in modesetting driver is used for intel hardware?
