Author: Arnt Karlsen
Date: 2025-04-26 14:55 -700
> ... now ssh in and show us lshw or hwinfo output

Via ssh.

# hwinfo --gfxcard

15: PCI 400.1: 0380 Display controller
  [Created at pci.386]
  Unique ID: P5_H.DuJ3H_XeOT3
  Parent ID: vSkL.EnCx55ZsBk2
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:04:00.1
  SysFS BusID: 0000:04:00.1
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "ATI RV380 [Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series] (Secondary)"
  Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc"
  Device: pci 0x5b72 "RV380 [Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series] (Secondary)"
  SubVendor: pci 0x174b "PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology"
  SubDevice: pci 0x0451
  Memory Range: 0xfeaf0000-0xfeafffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d00005B72sv0000174Bsd00000451bc03sc80i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: amdgpu is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe amdgpu"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #13 (PCI bridge)

25: PCI 400.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
  [Created at pci.386]
  Unique ID: YmUS.ScCm3mUDLV4
  Parent ID: vSkL.EnCx55ZsBk2
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:04:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:04:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "ATI Radeon X600 (RV370) 5B62 (PCIE)"
  Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc"
  Device: pci 0x5b62 "Radeon X600 (RV370) 5B62 (PCIE)"
  SubVendor: pci 0x174b "PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology"
  SubDevice: pci 0x0450
  Driver: "radeon"
  Driver Modules: "radeon"
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xd000-0xdfff (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xfeae0000-0xfeaeffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0x000c0000-0x000dffff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 27 (1 event)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d00005B62sv0000174Bsd00000450bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    XFree86 v4 Server Module: radeon
  Driver Info #1:
    XFree86 v4 Server Module: radeon
    3D Support: yes
    Extensions: dri
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #13 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #25

> ... and the logs on the graphics card.

You mean /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/Xorg.1.log ?

Grub 2 allows "set gfxmode=640x480" and "set gfxpayload=640x480".
Neither has yielded a display yet.

Can continue tomorrow. Thanks for the help,

                      ... P.

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