I've got a similar vintage Thinkpad x130 next to me: firmware-linux-free firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-misc-nonfree and it all works well.
UEFI should then more or less just work. On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 9:23 AM Sven Hoexter <s...@stormbind.net> wrote: > 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 > >
