I installed debian stretch with cinnamon, I logged into it for the first time, It had no hardware acceleration and another driver was missing so I installed linux-firmware-nonfree and firmware-realtek.
After reboot the screen turns black immediately and the entire system fails (keyboard isn't responding to anything).
I've since tried to briefly switch to the proprietary ati driver and after a standard installation followed by aticonfig --initial. It showed the graphical login screen fine but logging in resulted in a blank desktop.
It might be worth mentioning that I've encountered similar problems with other distros that use newer packages.
How can I solve this? I don't care whether the driver is proprietary or not, I just want a working display.
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