Hi, Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> wrote (Sat, 24 Apr 2021 11:30:03 +0200): > With Debian 10, the behaviour was that the installation succeeded > without installing firmware-* packages, and then, and the first boot, X > would start in a "degraded" mode (using, for example, the vesa driver). > The user would generally then install the firmware package (or, in the > case of NVidia, switch to the proprietary drivers). > > With Debian 11, the installation also succeeds, but then at first boot, > X fails to work correctly. What happens here is unclear: reports vary > between "black screen" (but does the system works if the user switches to > console mode?), "garbled screen", "system crash" (but maybe the user did > not notice that the system works in console mode).
Please note that YunQiang Su <wzss...@gmail.com> has stated in another mail: For us (mips port), it is a long history of problem. The problem is that: the older version of GNOME, or Mate, can work with vesa driver, while current GNOME cannot. Without amd/ati non-free firmware, radeon/amdgpu cannot work at all. So on mips platform with AMDGPU (aka, Loongson-3), it has nothing on display at all, even console. The reason is that there are no vesa driver on MIPS. -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
