By the way. I had that video card problem both with the stock Debian distro and with the LCNC one. In both casds the nomodeset command solved the issue.
Leonardo Marsaglia El mar., 27 oct. 2020 08:42, John Figie <[email protected]> escribió: > Andy asked in the duplicate thread with no subject which installer? > I used the Debian installer from Debian.org. > > Regards, > John > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 8:51 PM R C <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi John, > > > > > > I ran into issues like that. different cards might give you different > > issues, some linux-es can be picky like that (especially when you'd have > > to mess with nouveau) > > > > The firmware it is talking about is the linux firmware I think, not the > > firmware on the board. > > > > > > Did you do the install with the cli/text interface? or the graphical > > interface? It might simply not have seen the integrated graphics card > > when you were installing it. > > > > (there might also be a bios setting, on how the onboard graphics is > > used, it can be disabled too. Also, it might be it isn't a true radeon > > chipset, and didn't get recognized.) > > > > > > > > what I did is get a cheap/simple/used graphics card that will work, and > > got rid of the one that didn't play well. In your case that'd mean > > disabling the onboard graphics. > > > > > > hope that helps.... > > > > > > Ron > > > > > > On 10/26/20 7:15 PM, John Figie wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
