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Black screen when booting Debian

  • 30-03-2017 10:30AM
    #1
    ryanch09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭


    Hi all, hoping someone here can help.

    I recently installed an RX 480 GPU (8GB MSI Gaming X) and ever since I've been unable to boot into Debian 8 (also tried Ubuntu which doesn't work either). It begins to boot but as soon as it switches to X from the command line the screen goes blank, which seems to definitely indicate a graphics issue. I can boot fine with nomodeset but I'd much rather get proper graphics acceleration going. I tried installing the latest Linux kernel from the Debian 8 backports repo along with the latest AMDGPU driver, but still no joy. Has anyone else any ideas?

    EDIT: I should add that it works fine in Windows, so I don't think the card itself is faulty


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