On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 09:03:43AM -0400, Allen Hoover wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 08:09:20AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > alt...@emypeople.net wrote:
> > > 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.
> > Do you have a backport xserver-xorg-video-intel ? That's usually
> > the determining factor for X11 issues like this.
> 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?
So... that name is confusing as all hell, isn't it. I just Googled it,
and it turns out the full name of the CPU is "Intel Pentium Gold G6405"
and it was released this year.
I completely fail to understand Intel's branding strategy here. It
sounds like something ancient ("Pentium"), but apparently "Pentium Gold"
is something new. If they wanted it to sound new, they failed.
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!
