Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Fri, 2021-08-06 at 12:03 +0200, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > Source: linux > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where > appropriate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > > I have installed Debian 11 (debian installer RC3) on a PC having a > Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT as main graphics card. > The graphicall install process went well. After finishing the > installation and reboot, I got a blank screen and "Input not supported" > on my monitor. > I changed to tty2 and logged in, and saved the dmesg output (attached), > I noticed that "nouveau" driver was loaded but there was no info about > my card not supported or needing additional firmware.
The missing firmware should have been fixed in installer RC3 *if* you use an installer image that includes firmware, but not if you use the default images. Which did you use? On the kernel side we should try to fix the blank screen with an earlier check for firmware in nouveau, similarly to the way we patch the amdgpu and radeon drivers. (Although those patches now seem not to be completely effective.) > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > > I have rebooted and edited the "linux" line during Grub menu, to add > "nomodeset" and then I could have a fallback graphics mode. > I have installed the isenkram-cli package and ran > isenkram-autoinstall-firmware as suggested in the release notes and it > installed firmware for my realtek card (unrelated) and > firmware-misc-nonfree, but rebooting makes Linux pick the nouveau driver > again. [...] Well that's expected. The kernel driver and firmware are two different things that work together. Installing the firmware should allow nouveau to work properly. Are you saying that even with firmware-misc-nonfree installed, you still get a black screen when you don't use "nomodeset"? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer
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