Bob Proulx wrote: > Is anyone using an ASUS F1A75-M LE motherboard? > Unfortunately upgrading to Wheezy or later is a complete fail. > ... > characters being displayed but then the display switches into a ~60% > snow ~40% white and becomes unusable. To be clear this is the vt > console. This is not the X Window System display. The Linux text vt > console is unusable. A serious regression. > ... > If I am very lucky someone will have already seen this problem and > will have a fix. Am I lucky? It turns out that yes I am lucky today! Ben Hutchings kindly provided me with the solution. Apparently more non-free blobs were moved to the nonfree firmware bundle. In Sid (will try it in Wheezy later) installing the firmware-linux-nonfree package resolved the problem. The vt console is usable and the X display is usable. I am up and moving again. Yay! Bob
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