Re: new video card broke X

Eben King <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/28/26 17:57, Eben King wrote:
> On 6/28/26 16:51, Charles Curley wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:43:36 -0400
>> Eben King <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I formerly had an Nvidia GX750, and something still thinks I have it.
>>> startx runs but exits with error.  Any idea where that's coming from?
>>> I've done some investigation, but obviously not of the right things.
>>
>> Blunderbuss shot in the dark here: have you tried rebuilding your
>> initrd?
> 
> eben@cerberus:~/.reminders$ sudo update-initramfs -k `uname -r` -u
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-49-amd64
> I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sdb7
> I: (UUID=5f463d22-9cd4-49de-9ede-c92f7bf55081)
> I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
> 
> Now I reboot and see what happens.
That ran successfully and the restart worked (I didn't see it because 
the monitors were off and I couldn't get there fast enough), but same 
behavior. startx still won't work even if I manually modprobe amdgpu.
Text mode works, but no X.
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