On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 08:41:40AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 11:15:46AM +0000, David wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 at 10:01, Haines Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > We have at least definitely indentified the card that you have. These lines > > from the 'inxi' output you provided: > > > > > Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] > > > vendor: Hightech Information System > > > arch: TeraScale-2 > > > > plus that you wrote previously that you have a: > > > > > AMD Radeon R5 220 2GB Graphics Card > > > > confirm that you have a: > > > > Radeon R5 220 card released 21 December 2013 [1] > > A little hard to do. With my low resolution can see only a portion > of the web page. I dig a little and find: > > Radeon R5 220 (Caicos Pro) December 21, 2013 OEM > > > In the information that you showed, I would be very concerned about this: > > > > > [ 52.592548] [drm:radeon_pci_probe [radeon]] *ERROR* radeon kernel > > > modesettin> > > > > That error message has been truncated. What does the full message say? > > Sorry about that. It is: > > [ 52.592548] [drm:radeon_pci_probe [radeon]] *ERROR* radeon > kernel modesetting for R600 or later requires firmware installed > > > Because I wonder if it says something like: > > "radeon kernel modesetting ... requires firmware-amd-graphics" > > > So can you please show the output of: > > > > $ apt list --installed 'firmware-amd-*' > > This only returned: Listing... Done. > > I find that firmware-amd-graphics package is not installed. > > I installed it, but get: > > ... > Setting up firmware-amd-graphics (20230210-5) ... > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142+deb12u3) ... > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-44-amd64 > W: initramfs-tools configuration sets > RESUME=UUID=cbdfa8a6-a127-4139-96dc-60ef57dd121a > W: but no matching swap device is available. > > Does "swp device" refer to swap area? I definitively created it > when partitioning. However, the partition table ended up with two swap spaces. > One is on an inactive drive witn the UUID mentioned above and > the other on my currently active drive, although the partitioner > gave it a different UUID than shows up when I run # blkid on > the partition. > > However, I can't imagine how this would be relevant to my problem. >
> > And if firmware-amd-graphics package is not installed, can you try > > installing it and see if that fixes your issue. > > I now install it. It solved the proben thanks to your suggestion. When I reboot I come up with the resolution I want. As you indicate, the need for this driver is documented, but it helps to know where to look. Thank you for your duidance.qq -- Haines Brown
