I forgot to add a subject John Figie
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 8:18 PM John Figie <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear LinuxCNC users > > I started a project about 6 years ago that was delayed because of several > personal issues. I am now ready to begin putting together a computer that I > want to use to control a lathe. I want to install Debian 10 (buster) on my > PC. > > I have 2 identical older MBs Asus M5A 78L-M LX. Each has an AMC Sempron 145 > processor. I have been running one of these for the last 5 years with > Debian 8 and it seems to work fine. I selected these MBs because they > seemed to have reasonable performance with latency test. I recently > assembled the second MB and decided to install Debian 10 using a USB drive. > The installation completes, installs GRUB and then prompts to reboot. > > The GRUB graphical menu screen looks fine. > > When the new system boots the last message on the screen is: > [ OK ] Started GNOME Display Manager. > Nothing further happens on the screen. > > If i boot with Linux 4.19.0-12 amd64 (recovery mode) then I am able to boot > successfully > At the prompt I can enter the command # journalctl -xb > Looking at the output there is one error displayed: > > drm: radeon_pci_probe ERROR radeon kernel modesetting for R600 or later > requires firmware installed. > > 1) Is this error significant? > 2) Do I really need this firmware? I am not using any graphics card -just > the built in graphics. Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS780 I really don't want to > mess around with trying to flash new firmware on the MB. - but if that is > what it takes I might try to figure out how to do that. > > If i swap hard drives with my working Debian 8 system then the new computer > boots normally to the debian 8 GNOME desktop. > > If anyone can give me some hints or ideas to try I will appreciate your > help and kindness. > > John Figie > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
