Re: Psychedelic GUI after stable update to buster
Alexander V. Makartsev composed on 2019-07-14 11:48 (UTC+0500):
> Felix Miata wrote:
> To install "firmware-amd-graphics" package is a good suggestion.
> But chances are high that removal of *-ati and *-radeon packages will
> also remove Desktop Environment, because those packages are part of
> "xserver-xorg-video-all" package.
> I'd suggest a less radical approach and simply "tell" the system what
> driver to use via modprobe config files. [1]
Someone who has only a recent AMD GPU has no need for every DDX still provided by
Xorg, which is all the -all metapackage exists to bloat the installation with.
That metapackage typically prevents use of the often best available FOSS DDX,
modesetting, by Intel, AMD and NVidia GPUs.
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