One more "X won't start" issue (X cannot run in framebuffer)

[EIKA]

Hi all!

My issue might look simple for Linux gurus. And there are a lot of similar threads here on board and other boards. But I spent 2 days working on it, and still no progress

Could you please, guys, look into and help me? I believe that we will be able solve this issue.

I installed Debian 10.7 from "firmware" distributive (at first I tried "netinstall" one, but lately switched to distributive that includes non-free firmware). I chose Desktop environment at tasksel tool at installation stage, as well as KDE Plasma. But system starts on console mode. And if I try to run it by entering X or startx, I am getting a lot of errors:

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Fatal server error:
X cannot run in framebuffer mode
Please specify BusIDs for all framebuffer devices.
xinit: saving up
xinit: Server terminated with error (1).
xinit: Unable to connect to X server: connection refused
xinit: server error

I googled a lot and found out 3 main directions for this or similar issue:

1. Installing ATI non-free drivers ( accordingly to this manual https://wiki.debian.org/AMDGPUDriverOnStretchAndBuster2 ; played with 20.45 version).
2. Installing free drivers ( accordingly this manual viewtopic.php?f=17&t=146093#p720067 )
3. Updating kernel headers.
4. Installing xserver-xorg-video-openchrome package.

But sadly nothing helped. But I am not Linux specialist and probably can do something wrong. I need your help and guidance, please.

Here is how exactly I did method # 1 (installation of ATI proprietary drivers):

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apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
tar -xvf amdgpu-pro-20.45-1164792-ubuntu-20.04.tar.xz
cd amdgpu-pro-20.45-1164792-ubuntu-20.04
dpkg -i amdgpu-dkms-firmware_*.deb
dpkg -i amdgpu-core_*.deb amdgpu-dkms_*.deb

Also, it can be important, I skipped patching. Because patch tool failed (it was unable to locate target file "amdgpu_bios.c"). Even after cd to /usr/src/amdgpu* dir.

Here is more data you will probably need:

VGA adapter data:

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05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Picasso [1002:15d8] (rev ce)

So it’s AMD Athlon Gold 3150U CPU (codename "Picasso") containing GPU (probably Vega 3). Under Windows GPU recognizes as AMD Radeon 530 Series / AMD Radeon Graphics.

And here is Xorg logs taken from brand new / just installed system (recorded BEFORE installing any drivers / before any actions taken): https://pastebin.com/MWqEEYn2

Now I am ready to start from scratch. I re-installed Debian OS 10.7 and ready for new experiments.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

And here is method #5, from Debian's ATI How To: https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo

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# apt purge *nvidia*
# apt update
# apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree libgl1-mesa-dri libglx-mesa0 mesa-vulkan-drivers xserver-xorg-video-all

deb source was set as

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deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free

OS was restarted before test.

And here is result of execution startx (black screen of death):

http://netfileshare.com/share/boards/de ... X-fail.jpg

[EIKA]

And here is result of execution lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3 | grep 'in use' command:

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[  494.184923] [drm:gfx_v8_0_ring_test_ring [amdgpu]] *ERROR* amdgpu: ring 0 test failed (scratch(0xC040)=0xFFFFFFFF)
[  494.184987] [drm:amdgpu_device_ip_resume_phase2 [amdgpu]] *ERROR* resume of IP block <gfx_v8_0> failed -22
[  494.185049] [drm:amdgpu_device_resume [amdgpu]] *ERROR* amdgpu_device_ip_resume failed (-22).
[  499.618941] [drm:gfx_v8_0_hw_fini [amdgpu]] *ERROR* KCQ disabled failed (scratch(0xC040)=0xFFFFFFFF)
[  500.049189] [drm:gfx_v8_0_hw_fini [amdgpu]] *ERROR* KCQ disabled failed (scratch(0xC040)=0xFFFFFFFF)
[  500.479439] [drm:gfx_v8_0_hw_fini [amdgpu]] *ERROR* KCQ disabled failed (scratch(0xC040)=0xFFFFFFFF)
[  500.909670] [drm:gfx_v8_0_hw_fini [amdgpu]] *ERROR* KCQ disabled failed (scratch(0xC040)=0xFFFFFFFF)
[  501.339885] [drm:gfx_v8_0_hw_fini [amdgpu]] *ERROR* KCQ disabled failed (scratch(0xC040)=0xFFFFFFFF)
[  501.770141] [drm:gfx_v8_0_hw_fini [amdgpu]] *ERROR* KCQ disabled failed (scratch(0xC040)=0xFFFFFFFF)
[  502.200398] [drm:gfx_v8_0_hw_fini [amdgpu]] *ERROR* KCQ disabled failed (scratch(0xC040)=0xFFFFFFFF)
[  502.630714] [drm:gfx_v8_0_hw_fini [amdgpu]] *ERROR* KCQ disabled failed (scratch(0xC040)=0xFFFFFFFF)
[  503.583482] [drm:amdgpu_device_suspend [amdgpu]] *ERROR* amdgpu asic reset failed

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Picasso cards need the kernel & firmware-amd-graphics packages from the beowulf-backports repository. Read the "Frequently Asked Questions" thread in the HowTo section, post back here if you can't figure it out yourself.

EDIT: don't bother with AMDGPU-PRO, even AMD only recommend that for their "Pro" series cards and the warning has been placed on that Debian wiki page for good reason. I only hope they remove that nonsense soon.

[EIKA]

Head_on_a_Stick,

Thanks for your reply. I believe you're talking about this thread: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=142974

Bust what should I do after the clean install of "non-free" distributive?

If I got you right, I must change repository to:

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deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free

And then?

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# apt update

But what's else?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

What should I do?

As root:

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tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list <<<'deb https://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free'
apt update
apt install -t buster-backports linux-image-amd64 firmware-amd-graphics
reboot

[EIKA]

Goddamn!

Thank you very much. You saved me.

IT WORKS!