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kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

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(Ascii) second monitor not recognized / graphics card AMD RX560

Hello ,

i have downgraded yesterday from Beowulf to Asciii by performing a clean install (from DVD.iso choosing LXDE + KDE as graphical desktops > now it seems i have a hybrid Devuan

on Beowulf both of my monitor were recognized and functioning.

Now on Asciii only one monitor is recognized.

I presume that i am missing some drivers for the graphics card RX 560.

it seems the card is recognized, but something is missing.

lspci | grep 'VGA\|3D'
08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Baffin [Radeon RX 460] (rev e5)

Please let me know if i need to activate to some non-free repository to install the proper software.

Thank you very much.

kapqa

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Re: (Ascii) second monitor not recognized / graphics card AMD RX560

i was able to solve bis problem by enabling the "contrib" and "non-free" repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list and then updating the package list with "sudo apt-get update"

afterwards i installed with this line from the debian atihowto (under point 4.)

# apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-video-ati

the appropriate packages; now the second monitor is active!

thanks!

https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo

Last edited by kapqa (2019-10-07 09:06:16)

coyotito

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Re: (Ascii) second monitor not recognized / graphics card AMD RX560

Great. Such hybrid installs are often problematic. No other issues?

kapqa

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Re: (Ascii) second monitor not recognized / graphics card AMD RX560

Well, not so much, but for some reason i was not able to switch from LXDE to KDE as Login Manager (with KWin); effectively,
the StartLogin, the Menu was managed by LXQT and the Windows-Display-Manager and FileManager was with KDE (which i very much like, especially the older more responive kde4) -

- so i try to change to KDE altogether, and in the process i ended up performing a new install with Devuan Ascii XFCE.

I really like the responsiveness of XFCE, but for the rest i prefer KDE.

still not sure how to go on with the Desktop Environment; it would be nice to able to switch easier "on the fly" , but this time i was just not persevering enough.
KDE + LXQT is certainly a interesting match (actually i thought that i get a full KDE and a full LXQT, but somehow it got mingled together).

Last edited by kapqa (2019-10-10 10:57:12)

kapqa

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Re: (Ascii) second monitor not recognized / graphics card AMD RX560

probably this hybridizaion occured because i did choose "lightdm" as displaymanager instead of "sddm" - i did not know that sddm is the one favored by kde. it would be good if upon presented with the option of choosing a displaymanager there would be shown a bit more info on the available options.

PedroReina

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Re: (Ascii) second monitor not recognized / graphics card AMD RX560

still not sure how to go on with the Desktop Environment; ... KDE + LXQT is certainly a interesting match

Have you tried Trinity? It is in my "to try" list.

ToxicExMachina

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Re: (Ascii) second monitor not recognized / graphics card AMD RX560

still not sure how to go on with the Desktop Environment; ... KDE + LXQT is certainly a interesting match

Have you tried Trinity? It is in my "to try" list.

I use TDE on a daily basis. It's pretty comfortable and full featured DE even today because KDE and GNOME didn't evolve at all and nobody made anything else comparable with TDE.

PedroReina

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Re: (Ascii) second monitor not recognized / graphics card AMD RX560

I use TDE on a daily basis. It's pretty comfortable and full featured DE

Your opinion is important to me. Thank you very much for sharing. I'm using Devuan ASCII with XFCE, but definitely I will try Beowulf with TDE.

kapqa

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Re: (Ascii) second monitor not recognized / graphics card AMD RX560

tried today the Ascii with KDE, and on top of it i did install TDE 14 (never tried Trinity Desktop before) and i was very pleasantly surprised.
Some things did not function though (printing for example) so i went back to Ascii XFCE, which has been most stable and rapid.