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-
