On 2020-01-18 19:12 -0500, tom h wrote: > Recently I have installed stable on a few old optiplex workstations that > have an AMD graphics card. On first boot I always get a black screen and > have to: > > 1. Enable non-free > 2. Install firmware-linux-nonfree. Even though the netinstall media is > firmware-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso > > <https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.2.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso> > > I see references to the AMD driver existing in the kernel and thought it > would load at boot time. > > What am I missing?
There are no graphics drivers in the installer (it relies on a simple framebuffer), so it will not detect that there is firmware missing for them. Cheers, Sven