On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 07:54:32AM +0200, solitone wrote: > On 18/09/17 07:11, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > The packages you need to install are firmware-linux* and intel-microcode. > > Would firmware-linux-nonfree bring any advantage as far as performance is > concerned? I don't have it installed, and everything works fine on my > machine, but I wonder whether I should consider installing it. I've just > installed intel-microcode since I feel it might have an impact.
When in doubt, try: dmesg | grep -i firmware and see if it complains about any files that it wants to load but can't. >From there, you can use packages.debian.org, or one of the IRC bots, to track down which package contains your firmware file.
