On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 06:35:30AM -0400, 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 general, I'd really suggest running the latest Debian stable. > > 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. > Intel firmware needed as others have suggested. > > This system is used in an offline application, and I'm not ready to > upgrade to Debian 11 at this time. > > > Thanks, Allen > > Please CC me. I only get the debian-digest mailings > With every good wish, as ever, Andy Cater
