Hello everyone I recently installed Debian 10 on my computer, everything was fine until I realized the background image wasn't being displayed instead I'm seeing a solid grey color as background, I tried using an image on a different location but the issue persists.
I had to manually install the ADM drivers following the steps on this guide since screen resolution was really small. What am I missing and how could I fix this issue? thanks to all.
The problem is on the drivers, if your GPU is GCN 1.1 or older this will work for you.
You have to uninstall xserver-xorg-video-all packages with apt remove *xserver-xorg-video*
use lspci -nn | grep VGA to check what GPU you do have. You will get an output like this:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880 [Radeon HD 4200] [1002:9710]
Go to Debian repositories and search the name of your GPU using "description" filter. You will find one of these 3 packages on the results;xserver-xorg-video-mach64, xserver-xorg-video-r128 or xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
Now install the proper xserver-xorg-video package that matches your GPU. I.e apt install xserver-xorg-video-radeon
