Re: Debian 11 freezes on Dell Latitude e6520

On 27.12.21 13:02, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía wrote:
>Thank you Matus.
>
>I'll try first Andy recommendations: making a custom live image is out
>of reach to me, I'm afraid.

of course: more in-depth advices are usually better than advices how to
find/guess the problem.
just be safe and have backups.

good luck

>El Sun, 26 Dec 2021 17:41:09 +0100
>Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]> escribió:
>
>> >> On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 11:47:27AM +0100, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía
>> >> > Now, since Debian 11 was released earlier this year, I've been
>> >> > testing its behaviour on the machine. Unfortunately, even with
>> >> > the latest live image, including non-free firmware, the test is
>> >> > not passed. The computer boots well and the graphical interface
>> >> > (I tried my usual xfce, but also mate) appears neat and working.
>> >> > However, after a few moments varying from few seconds to no more
>> >> > than a couple of minutes, the system freezes completely.
>> >> > Impossible to open a console, there is no answer at all, only
>> >> > physical shutdown is possible.
>>
>> On 26.12.21 16:41, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía wrote:
>> >The computer has 8 Gb memory, a lot more than enough to load the
>> >image. The graphics are NVIDIA 4200M, with drivers provided, under
>> >Debian 10, by the legacy deb packages.
>>
>> apparently this requires nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver and its
>> dependencies. I have no idea if these are available on live CD.
>>
>> >Of course, I could try upgrading directly from Debian 10 and rely on
>> >the backups if something goes wrong. As said, I did that for previous
>> >releases... but only after having successfully made a test with the
>> >live image.
>> >
>> >But you gave me one idea: I'll try the “standard” live image, without
>> >any graphics and try to build from that to see what happens.
>>
>> if you can make the live image to use nvidia-390x driver, it should
>> work.
>>