On Jo, 21 oct 21, 06:35:30, 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.
You could try manually installing only the kernel from bullseye (Debian 11) or buster-backports if that doesn't work out. In general Debian is very flexible in using an older or newer kernel and as far as I can tell the dependencies for the kernel in bullseye are satisfied in stretch. Hope this helps, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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