On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 09:57:47AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > It's a AMD CPU-GPU package, I've documented the hardware in > the wiki as I already pointed out earlier: > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Lenovo/ideapadS205/wheezy
I've updated that page with some more information. For one the grub2 shell input to boot amd64 from Russel and my steps on how to finish a i386 based installation with grub-legacy. That actually brings me up to a booting and working XFCE installation with X and all the glitter. > One of the things that could prevent the X start is a firmware issue. > I documented that in this page back then, and it's likely you could > not do anything without the proper non-free firmware installed. Russel, I believe what you're missing on your installation to get X working is just an apt install firmware-linux-nonfree That depends on some firmware package for the AMD/ATI GPU. The required firmware for the ralink wlan ship is installed by default if you based on your install on the non-free netinstall images. Otherwise also apt install firmware-misc-nonfree via a cable connection. Sven