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  PC wont boot to GUI John Figie <zephyr9900@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 02:10 +0100
    Re: PC wont boot to GUI David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-27 03:20 +0100
      Re: PC wont boot to GUI Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-27 13:10 +0100
        Re: PC wont boot to GUI John Figie <zephyr9900@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 01:50 +0100
          [SOLVED] Re: PC wont boot to GUI David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-10-28 02:10 +0100

#228276 — PC wont boot to GUI

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Hi,

I am not sure what to do next.
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 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 with the install media removed.

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) where do I find this firmware and do I really need this firmware? I am
not using any graphics card -just the built in graphics.  Gallium 0.4 on
AMD RS780

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

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#228278

On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 12:03, John Figie <zephyr9900@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure what to do next.

> I have 2 identical older MBs Asus M5A 78L-M LX.

Hi John, I have a couple of these.

> decided to install Debian 10

ok.

> drm: radeon_pci_probe ERROR radeon kernel modesetting for R600 or later requires firmware installed.

> 1) Is this error significant?

Yes.

> 2) where do I find this firmware and do I really need this firmware?
I am not using any graphics card -just the built in graphics.  Gallium
0.4 on AMD RS780

You need to install the firmware.
You do that by running this command as superuser:

# apt install firmware-amd-graphics

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#228288

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 01:18:42PM +1100, David wrote:
> You need to install the firmware.
> You do that by running this command as superuser:
> 
> # apt install firmware-amd-graphics

You may have to add "contrib" and "non-free" to your sources.list first,
and then run "apt update".

See <https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Example_sources.list> if
you need instructions for editing the file.

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David

Thanks for your help, this solved my problem. I did however need to figure
out how to connect my computer to the internet:
(additional help from
https://serverfault.com/questions/21475/starting-network-connection-from-ubuntu-recovery
)
I did open my sources.list file but there was no need to add "contrib" and
"non-free" as these were already in the list.

# ip link    this returns the name of the ethernet on my machine it was enp2s0
# ip link set enp2s0 up
# dhclient enp2s0

# ip addr     this now shows that I have an ip address on my network
given by my router

Then run

# apt install firmware-amd-graphics

Reboot and life is good now :-)

Regards,

John Figie


On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:01 AM Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 01:18:42PM +1100, David wrote:
> > You need to install the firmware.
> > You do that by running this command as superuser:
> >
> > # apt install firmware-amd-graphics
>
> You may have to add "contrib" and "non-free" to your sources.list first,
> and then run "apt update".
>
> See <https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Example_sources.list> if
> you need instructions for editing the file.
>
>

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#228337 — [SOLVED] Re: PC wont boot to GUI

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 11:46, John Figie <zephyr9900@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your help, this solved my problem.

[...]

> Reboot and life is good now :-)

Great, thanks for confirming and providing a summary of your solution.

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