[Debian 12 Issue] Black Screen after starting X11. Cant log in into Graphical Environments. Either DEs or WMs. AMD Radeon GPU problems
Paul Gerdes
I reinstalled Debian 12 a few times via netinstall. Tried different
Desktop Environments and WMs. The
Installation runs through without any issues. Running Debian without
graphical environment (Terminal only TTY) is running fine. Installing
packages via apt is also fine. As soon as i install a DE or WM and restart the
machine, the screen goes black (after showing the boot screen). I cant
log in to any Desktop.
I also tried booting the Live ISOs of Debian 12 Gnome and XFCE
edition. And Fedora Workstation 38 Live ISO. All of them have the same
issues.
I found
out that Linux runs fine when i took the AMD GPU out of the PC. Running
Linux only with internal Intel GPU. As soon as i put the AMD
GPU back in its starting to freeze / black out again.
Drivers and Firmware are installed following this wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo
The Systems Specs are:
Mainboard MSI CSM-Q87M-E43 (MS-7830)
Intel i5-4570
Graphics AMD Radeon R9 390 (Powercolor)
16 GB Ram Corsair DDR3-1333
SSD Gigabyte GP-GS 500GB
I had no issues with Windows 10 on this machine. 3D games and everything runs fine.
Michel Verdier
> Hi i have a problem with Debian 12 after Installation.
> Every time i try to log in to the Desktop Environment or WM my Screen goes
> black. The PC completely freezes and i cant switch to another TTY.
grep EE /var/log/Xorg.*
grep WW /var/log/Xorg.*
Michel Verdier
> i get these messages:
> "grep: /var/log/Xorg.*: No such file or directory"
> "grep: /var/log/Xorg: No such file or directory"
>
> looks like there is no log file for X11
Did you also try to start X with startx from a tty ?
Can you provide
find /etc/ | grep xorg
And from your login user
grep EE ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.*
grep WW ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.*
cat ~/.bash_profile
cat ~/.xserverrc
cat ~/.xsession
cat ~/.xsession-errors