[SOLVED] Re: PC wont boot to GUI

2020-10-27 Thread David
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 11:46, John Figie 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.

Re: PC wont boot to GUI

2020-10-27 Thread John Figie
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

Re: PC wont boot to GUI

2020-10-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
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

Re: PC wont boot to GUI

2020-10-26 Thread David
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 12:03, John Figie 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 firmw

PC wont boot to GUI

2020-10-26 Thread John Figie
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 d