On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 12:59:35PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Greg Wooledge composed on 2021-10-21 09:27 (UTC-0400): > > > Now, knowing that this is a piece of hardware that was released in 2021, > > I would *not* attempt to run Debian 9 on it. You *might* be able to > > run Debian 11 on it, if you're lucky! > > > > > Early 2021 (Q1) is when that particular G6405 model was launched[1], but it's > a > Comet Lake, which was originally launched August 21, 2019[2], so should be > Stretch-compatible at least via backports. > > [1] > <https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/201901/intel-pentium-gold-g6405-processor-4m-cache-4-10-ghz.html> > [2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Lake_%28microprocessor%29>
I was able to get Debian 9 mostly compatible, by using the latest 5.X kernel, however, opengl didn't seem to be supported. So instead of trying to patch that up, I bit the bullet and upgraded to 10, then to 11. Now everything seems to be fully compatible. GL version shows 4.6, and GL Renderer is Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 610. I use a number of zenity dialogs for showing info or asking questions on this system. On the Deb 9 system, these dialogs displayed with a reasonable width/height, without explicitly setting either --width or --height options. However, after upgrading, I noticed the info, warning, and question dialogs display only about 10 text characters per line. For instance, zenity --info --text "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs", displays in 5 rows, instead of in 1 row like it used to before upgrading. The behaviour is the same on a fresh install of 11. Was curious if anyone else had issues with this, and if there is a way to change the default behaviour. Or do I need to go through and add --width and --height options in every instance where zenity is used? Thanks! Allen
