On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 06:12:54AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 11/8/21 11:03 pm, Andrey Ponomarenko wrote: > > The report is now available in Debian Salsa: > > https://salsa.debian.org/linuxhw/TestCoverage/-/tree/main/Dist/Debian_11 > > > > > Hello all! > > > > > > See report here [1]. We have ~400 computers tested on Debian 11 at the > > > moment. 10% of them are probed from LiveCDs, others are installed systems. > > > > > > The main goal of the report is to make sure that we have not lost support > > > for any hardware configuration classes. To achieve this, I compared it > > > with the similar report for Debian 10 [2] in order to find significant > > > discrepancies. Good news that we've covered all hardware classes tested > > > on Debian 10 and differences in statistical indicators are relatively > > > small. Particularly, I don't see any noticeable regression in use of AMD > > > or NVIDIA graphics cards [3]. Either affected graphics cards are rare or > > > people do not have problems with installing additional firmware packages. > > > > > > Report details and logs (Xorg, dmesg, etc.) are available in the > > > full-feature report [4]. > > > > > > Thanks to all for participating in the report! Looking forward to get > > > more Debian hardware probes from the community to monitor hardware > > > support status and trends. > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/linuxhw/TestCoverage/tree/main/Dist/Debian_11 > > > [2] https://github.com/linuxhw/TestCoverage/tree/main/Dist/Debian_10 > > > [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2021/04/msg00646.html > > > [4] https://linux-hardware.org/?view=trends&rel=debian-11 > > > > > So, because I can't find it in the document, does Debian 11 support nVIDIA > Optimus? > > And, does Debian 11 support the Intel i7 Haskell architecture? > > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > (UTC+0800) > .............. > Optimus - yes - but you might need to jump through hoops. On laptops with Optimus, I found it easiest to install a bare text install first - no X, no GUI, then install the bumblebee package then install the prerequisites for any Nvidia driver. Only after that with all the bits in place, install a desktop using tasksel.
If you're happy to use nouveau, then it's bumblebee. If you need to use the proprietary driver it's bumblebee-nvidia you need. It was painful to go through it all with nouveau only to discover laptop lockups and that I'd have to start again with the proprietary drivers. Try a couple fo test installs and good luck. All the very best, Andy Cater
