Hi, Am 14. Februar 2021 13:33:41 MEZ schrieb "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amaca...@einval.com>: >On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 12:53:01PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: >> Hallo Karl-Heinz, >> >> no surprise, that the problem is still there, because nothing has >been done >> against it yet :-(( >> >> There has been a lot of discussion in some mailinglist on this topic, >however >> there seems to be not much interest in the installer-team apparently, >to do some >> changing (or maybe with other words: lack of manpower prevents the >team from >> fixing this). >> >> I sent a proposal to debian-boot for this, but got no answer (neither >positiv >> nor negativ) ... >> >The problem may be that you need to install firmware-amd-graphics which >isn't >on the boot media.
The point is, it's even worse: Even if you use the unofficial images which have the firmware included on the boot media, it does not get installed!!! >If you can boot into rescue mode / a text only mode >by >moving to a different console (or by using ssh to log in from another >machine) >install that package. > >This is so for most modern cards from AMD. I hit this the other day >when upgrading a machine and replacing a graphics card. > >If you do a text mode expert install - which I would recommend in the >event of graphics card problems as a fail-safe - then at the point at >which there is a prompt for additional firmware, you can insert it >then. No, that does not work. See above. The rational is quoted in my first mail from today. Holger -- Sent from /e/ Mail on Fairphone
