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Do you see any errors/failures/timeouts/etc in the logs when you use
journalctl?Fore sure more details needed. I run LMDE6 on my system and its RX7600 works perfectly out of the box.
currently kernel 6.10
how about the logs; any leads there?
Could you tell me what information you need?
Yeah there are a lot although I would still consider myself a beginner at Linux and the terminal so I'm not really sure what the logs mean and which ones specifically I should be looking for.
unless you're using a very old or niche distribution, all of your logs are centralized in to a single space and the command
journalctlwill let you look at them.in your situation i would use the command
journalctl -fto get a live action printout of all the things that are happening as you try to start your x server and you can look through them to find messages in the logs that contain something like "failure" or "error" or "timeout" to find clues as to what's causing your problem.you don't need the xserver to run linux and most distributions give you 7 virtual terminals that you can log into without the xserver and each one can be accessed using the keyboard combinations alt+crtl+f1 through alt+crtl+f7.
when i used to be in situations like yours i would log into two virtual terminals. i would use one of them to run
tail -f $lognameand the other to start the xserver.tail -f $lognameis the older deprecated version ofjournalctl -fand they both show you what's happening in your computer as it occurs. you'll likely only need to see it once or twice to get a sense of what's happening and what the interval looks like and you can accomplish something similar if you keep track of your own timestamps by hand and then look through the logs searching for those timestamps in the logs.share the log messages with errors/failures/timeout/whatever in them and we can both look for clues using google or ai.