Re: Can not boot to desktop when I use AMD graphics card on Debian forky

Felix Miata <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Nov 2025 23:55:11 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.testing
Organization less than infinite
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larryw3i composed on 2025-11-20 12:14 (UTC+0800):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> AMD graphics card

> `zhaoxin` graphics card is the same, I have used Debian testing for 
> years, and GNOME and GDM3 can NOT be started normally since last week. I 
> tried to start GNOME from `tty` , but actually, the `x11` has be 
> deprecated ,and I entered `gnome-shell --wayland`, it printed `NO GPU 
> found`. `CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM` should be configured for this issue.

I have 13 Forky installations, of which 3 are using AMD GPUs, and exclusively X11.
None are using Gnome. All are working just dandy. This thread seems to point to
either Gnome itself, or Wayland, or both, not kernel.