Re: AMD 10.2 netinstall

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2020-01-18 19:12 -0500, tom h wrote:

> Recently I have installed stable on a few old optiplex workstations that
> have an AMD graphics card.  On first boot I always get a black screen and
> have to:
>
>    1. Enable non-free
>    2. Install firmware-linux-nonfree. Even though the netinstall media is
>    firmware-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>    <https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.2.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso>
>
> I see references to the AMD driver existing in the kernel and thought it
> would load at boot time.
>
> What am I missing?

There are no graphics drivers in the installer (it relies on a simple
framebuffer), so it will not detect that there is firmware missing for
them.

Cheers,
       Sven