On 2020-02-05 02:55 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Is it enough to upgrade to buster-backports kernel and AMD firmware to run > Xorg on > the 3200G CPU/APU?
That should be enough, at least to get a picture on the screen and run X. I am not sure about 3D acceleration, this might need a newer Mesa version than in buster, and there is no backport yet. > The R7 Kaveri motherboard/APU of a friend who is virtually > blind fried. When he has hardware trouble, it's me gets to figure out howto > and > fix it. He bought the new goodies on assumption they are enough for support > from > Stable, but apparently that's not the case. X is not able to run, as > Xorg.0.log > reports there is no framebuffer device or /dev/dri/card0. Support for the 3200G was added in Linux 4.20 and buster uses 4.19, so this is to be expected. Cheers, Sven