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. > If it does not, then I am out of ideas and hopefully someone else will > be able to further assist you. > > The firmware-amd-graphics package is provided by Debian in the > non-free-firmware repository. My sources.list has: contrib non-free non-free-firmware and so it should have been installed. But the description of the package says it is not automatically installed. > Also, in your 'inxi' output, these lines are bad: > > > loaded: vesa > > unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon > > because you need the radeon driver to be loaded !! > > > Does the statement resolution: > > 2024x768 mean it is current or is the only available one? > > You have 1024x768 as the current resolution because that is the maximum > provided by the vesa driver, which is currently the only working driver, > and in use. To get the higher resolution that your card is capable of, you > need to get the radeon driver working. Understood. As I suspected. I'll reboot as soon as I can take a break from work to see if installing the firmware-amd-graphics package made a difference. -- Haines Brown
