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Black screen when booting Debian

ryanch09 · 2017-03-30 09:30:10

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…

30-03-2017 10:30AM

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ryanch09

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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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