On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 08:22:14PM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:12:45PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Sounds like you need to install firmware-amd-graphics. It's in the > > non-free section, so make sure you've enabled non-free and contrib. > > I did that when setting up the mirror (which is debian.org via my > approx server). Again, I have installed Debian dozens of times, using > EXPERT mode, and so am reasonably familiar with the installer. > > I suppose that I need to download the firmware on another machine and > copy it to USB flash, and then reinstall the system. That is one > thing (finding and downloading firmware) which I do not recall ever > having done.
Why can't you just "apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics"? Is the machine lacking a network connection? You don't have to reinstall from scratch for this.
