You haven't given here much information to go on.
Looks like my GPU is the same or very similar to yours. It works just fine, with two connected displays no less:If you are able to boot to multi-user.target, and your GPU isn't bad, it should be able to be made to work. I don't have plymouth installed. If you have it installed, try purging it. I do not have xserver-xorg-video-radeon or xserver-xorg-video-ati installed. Inxi shows it's the modesetting Xorg driver in use here. The radeon kernel driver comes with each kernel. Thus, it works without installing any more drivers than shipped in the original 11.0 installation. Drivers for your GPU are "not available" because they are part of the original Debian Bullseye OS.
If you had an NVidia card previously installed, then swapped for the ATI, then you may have been using proprietary drivers from NVidia. If so, then they would probably have to be purged according to their original installation instructions before drivers for rv516 could work.
What does systemctl get-default report? Normally it should report graphical.target. If that's not happening, it needs switching to it.
Debian Bullseye went from normal support to LTS last month. It could be good to try upgrading. This can be done from the same login where you tried to use startx, if logged in as root.
Looks like my GPU is the same or very similar to yours. It works just fine, with two connected displays no less:
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# inxi -GSaz --za --hostnameSystem: Host: gx28b Kernel: 5.10.0-32-686 arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm parameters: root=LABEL=<filter> ipv6.disable=1 noresume consoleblank=0 mitigations=off Desktop: TDE (Trinity) v: R14.1.2 tk: Qt v: 3.5.0 wm: Twin v: 3.0 with: kicker vt: 7 dm: 1: TDM 2: XDM Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)Graphics: Device-1: AMD RV516 [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series] vendor: Dell driver: radeon v: kernel arch: Rage-7 code: R200 process: TSMC 150nm built: 2001-06 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 empty: SVIDEO-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:7183 class-ID: 0300 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 compositor: Twin v: 3.0 driver: X: loaded: modesetting dri: swrast gpu: radeon display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3600x1200 s-dpi: 120 s-size: 761x253mm (29.96x9.96") s-diag: 802mm (31.57") Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 pos: primary,left model: NEC EA243WM serial: <filter> built: 2011 res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 94 gamma: 1.2 size: 519x324mm (20.43x12.76") diag: 612mm (24.1") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1920x1200 min: 640x480 Monitor-2: VGA-1 pos: right model: Dell P2213 serial: <filter> built: 2012 res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 90 gamma: 1.2 size: 473x296mm (18.62x11.65") diag: 558mm (22") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1680x1050 min: 720x400 API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.1 vendor: x.org mesa v: 20.3.5 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.2 direct-render: yes renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 128 bits) device-ID: ffffffff:ffffffff memory: 1.43 GiB unified: no#If you had an NVidia card previously installed, then swapped for the ATI, then you may have been using proprietary drivers from NVidia. If so, then they would probably have to be purged according to their original installation instructions before drivers for rv516 could work.
What does systemctl get-default report? Normally it should report graphical.target. If that's not happening, it needs switching to it.
Debian Bullseye went from normal support to LTS last month. It could be good to try upgrading. This can be done from the same login where you tried to use startx, if logged in as root.
Statistics: Posted by mrmazda — 2024-09-09 01:29