Fucked up my system pretty bad whilst trying to install drivers (infosec.pub)

submitted 5 months ago by k_babone@infosec.pub to c/debian@lemmy.ml

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Hey guys,

Im a relatively new Linux user, so pardon the stupidity thats about to follow. I have an Asus gaming laptop on which I installed Debian 13/ testing. Everything worked well, until I tried installing new AMD drivers.

I followed this wiki article for the installation of the drivers. However after I ran the command

# apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics libgl1-mesa-dri libglx-mesa0 mesa-vulkan-drivers xserver-xorg-video-all

and rebooted my system, I was no longer able to access my Desktop ("unable to access Cinnamon session").

The good news is I can still access the terminal via Ctrl & alt & f2. However I am not able to reinstall cinnamon because I dont have network access (I think).

I might be wrong but I think thats because before rebooting I ran a VPN with killswitch enabled, which is now blocking my network access, but I have no idea how to disable this from the terminal.

Could you help a noob out to repair his system?

I would hate to reinstall and lose all my data :(

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

display graphics drivers comes baked into the kernel, you don't need to install anything, they are already there. messing with them is a bad time if you don't yet know what you are doing.

first things first take a look at your system logs to see what went wrong. depending on your installed vpn you should be able to just apt purge it.

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