Old Macbook Drivers for Debian Elsie 5

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Hello. I'm new to Linux and was finally able to get Debian installed on an old Macbook Pro 15" 2011. I received it used and had the motherboard switched out because of the failing gpu. I also have a new hard disc installed. It never booted up OS at all but I was able to get Linux installed. On boot, though, I have to add "nomodeset=0 and the graphics are not good. I assume I'm missing a critical driver somewhere but have no idea how to install it, or even understand the system settings which I'm posting below. Any input or help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Code: 
System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-27-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8 
           tk: GTK 3.24.24 wm: muffin dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: LMDE 5 Elsie 
           base: Debian 11.2 bullseye 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro8,2 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 v: Mac-94245A3940C91C80 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Apple model: Mac-94245A3940C91C80 v: MacBookPro8,2 serial: <filter> UEFI: Apple 
           v: 87.0.0.0.0 date: 06/13/2019 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 64.7 Wh condition: 64.1/75.2 Wh (85%) volts: 12.2/10.9 
           model: SMP bq20z451 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Discharging cycles: 1098 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-2635QM bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge 
           rev: 7 L2 cache: 6 MiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 32001 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/2900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 802 3: 800 4: 810 
           5: 800 6: 829 7: 800 8: 824 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics vendor: Apple 
           driver: N/A bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0116 class ID: 0300 
           Device-2: AMD Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] vendor: Apple driver: N/A 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:6760 class ID: 0300 
           Device-3: Apple FaceTime HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-2:3 
           chip ID: 05ac:8509 class ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,vesa 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon resolution: 1440x900~77Hz s-dpi: 96 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.1 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1c20 class ID: 0403 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-27-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3 v: kernel 
           port: 2000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:16b4 class ID: 0200 
           IF: enp2s0f0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme driver: wl 
           v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:4331 class ID: 0280 
           IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
           bus ID: 1-1.1.3:8 chip ID: 05ac:821a class ID: fe01 
           Report: ID: hci0 state: down address: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 7.77 GiB (3.3%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MZ7TY256HDHP-000L7 size: 238.47 GiB 
           speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 4L6Q scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 224.85 GiB used: 7.77 GiB (3.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 
           mapped: lvmlmde-root 
           ID-2: /boot/efi size: 285.4 MiB used: 5.8 MiB (2.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.68 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/dm-1 mapped: lvmlmde-swap 
USB:       Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
           Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Microchip (formerly SMSC) 2.0 Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 0424:2513 class ID: 0900 
           Hub-3: 1-1.1:4 info: Broadcom BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth) 
           ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 0a5c:4500 class ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 1-1.1.3:8 info: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: Bluetooth driver: btusb 
           interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 05ac:821a class ID: fe01 
           Device-2: 1-1.2:5 info: Apple Internal Keyboard/Trackpad (ANSI) 
           type: Keyboard,HID,Mouse driver: apple,bcm5974,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 
           speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 05ac:0245 class ID: 0301 
           Device-3: 1-2:3 info: Apple FaceTime HD Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo 
           interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 05ac:8509 class ID: 0e02 
           serial: <filter> 
           Hub-4: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 1d6b:0001 class ID: 0900 
           Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
           Hub-6: 3-1:2 info: Microchip (formerly SMSC) 2.0 Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 0424:2513 class ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 3-1.1:3 info: Apple Built-in IR Receiver type: HID driver: appleir,usbhid 
           interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip ID: 05ac:8242 class ID: 0300 
           Hub-7: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 1d6b:0001 class ID: 0900 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 26.0 C mobo: 0.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: apt: 2069 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-beta.list 
           1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-beta-archive-keyring.gpg] https: //brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
           1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com elsie main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
           2: deb https: //deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           3: deb https: //deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           4: deb http: //security.debian.org bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           5: deb https: //deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
Info:      Processes: 350 Uptime: 21h 31m wakeups: 2 Memory: 7.67 GiB used: 1.2 GiB (15.6%) 
           Init: systemd v: 247 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 
           Client: Unknown python3.9 client inxi: 3.3.01
 


Looks like you have an amd graphics card with the ati driver loaded. That suggests the system would be helped by the amd firmware. Have a look here to see how to install it with other recommendations too:

AtiHowTo - Debian Wiki

wiki.debian.org wiki.debian.org

In brief, you could install the package: firmware-amd-graphics, if it's not installed, but the link shows more helpful packages as well.
 
Thanks so much! I will give it a try and report back.
 
I did install the recommended firmware and graphics but it came back as everything being up to date and nothing new installed. I did find in the synaptic package manager that there is a package in kernel and models (non free) firmware for Samsung. Not sure if that has anything to do with it but my hard drive is Samsung. Any other ideas? Thanks!

Here is the system report again:
Code: 
System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-27-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8 
           tk: GTK 3.24.24 wm: muffin dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: LMDE 5 Elsie 
           base: Debian 11.2 bullseye 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro8,2 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 v: Mac-94245A3940C91C80 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Apple model: Mac-94245A3940C91C80 v: MacBookPro8,2 serial: <filter> UEFI: Apple 
           v: 87.0.0.0.0 date: 06/13/2019 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45.7 Wh condition: 65.9/75.2 Wh (88%) volts: 11.4/10.9 
           model: SMP bq20z451 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Discharging cycles: 1098 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-2635QM bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge 
           rev: 7 L2 cache: 6 MiB 
           flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 32000 
           Speed: 1031 MHz min/max: 800/2900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1031 2: 1025 3: 1221 
           4: 1025 5: 1147 6: 1311 7: 855 8: 800 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics vendor: Apple 
           driver: N/A bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0116 class ID: 0300 
           Device-2: AMD Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] vendor: Apple driver: N/A 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:6760 class ID: 0300 
           Device-3: Apple FaceTime HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-2:3 
           chip ID: 05ac:8509 class ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,vesa 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon resolution: 1440x900~77Hz s-dpi: 96 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.1 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1c20 class ID: 0403 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-27-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3 v: kernel 
           port: 2000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:16b4 class ID: 0200 
           IF: enp2s0f0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme driver: wl 
           v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:4331 class ID: 0280 
           IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
           bus ID: 1-1.1.3:8 chip ID: 05ac:821a class ID: fe01 
           Report: ID: hci0 state: down address: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 7.82 GiB (3.3%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MZ7TY256HDHP-000L7 size: 238.47 GiB 
           speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 4L6Q scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 224.85 GiB used: 7.82 GiB (3.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 
           mapped: lvmlmde-root 
           ID-2: /boot/efi size: 285.4 MiB used: 5.8 MiB (2.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.68 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/dm-1 mapped: lvmlmde-swap 
USB:       Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
           Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Microchip (formerly SMSC) 2.0 Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 0424:2513 class ID: 0900 
           Hub-3: 1-1.1:4 info: Broadcom BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth) 
           ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 0a5c:4500 class ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 1-1.1.3:8 info: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: Bluetooth driver: btusb 
           interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 05ac:821a class ID: fe01 
           Device-2: 1-1.2:5 info: Apple Internal Keyboard/Trackpad (ANSI) 
           type: Keyboard,HID,Mouse driver: apple,bcm5974,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 
           speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 05ac:0245 class ID: 0301 
           Device-3: 1-2:3 info: Apple FaceTime HD Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo 
           interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 05ac:8509 class ID: 0e02 
           serial: <filter> 
           Hub-4: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 1d6b:0001 class ID: 0900 
           Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
           Hub-6: 3-1:2 info: Microchip (formerly SMSC) 2.0 Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 0424:2513 class ID: 0900 
           Device-1: 3-1.1:3 info: Apple Built-in IR Receiver type: HID driver: appleir,usbhid 
           interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip ID: 05ac:8242 class ID: 0300 
           Hub-7: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 1d6b:0001 class ID: 0900 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 27.3 C mobo: 0.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: apt: 2070 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-beta.list 
           1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-beta-archive-keyring.gpg] https: //brave-browser-apt-beta.s3.brave.com/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
           1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com elsie main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
           2: deb https: //deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           3: deb https: //deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           4: deb http: //security.debian.org bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           5: deb https: //deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
Info:      Processes: 220 Uptime: 12m wakeups: 2 Memory: 7.67 GiB used: 1.09 GiB (14.2%) 
           Init: systemd v: 247 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 
           Client: Unknown python3.9 client inxi: 3.3.01
 
Two aspects come to mind: is the package: firmware-misc-nonfree installed? It has some intel firmware which may help, and there's no harm installing if it's not already installed.

The other aspect is to consider upgrading from bullseye to bookworm. The advantage of doing so is to get the latest software available for the debian stable release. Here is a succinct description which works:
You would need to be able to use a text editor to alter the sources.list, so that's an important skill to learn if not known already.

The official upgrading info is here:
It includes a lot of info that won't be necessary in ordinary cases. The briefer info at the first link is fine.
 
SuzG said:
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,vesa unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon
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It seems you are still booting with the nomodesetting kernel parameter.
Don't forget things will not improve as long that this parameter is used during boot.
Install firmware-misc-nonfree and reboot without specifying "nomodeset=0" and see what happens...

On my system the sentence in bold above reads as: driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: i965 gpu: i915 display-ID: :0

Greetz,
Eddy
 
Oldhabbits said:
It seems you are still booting with the nomodesetting kernel parameter.
Don't forget things will not improve as long that this parameter is used during boot.
Install firmware-misc-nonfree and reboot without specifying "nomodeset=0" and see what happens...

On my system the sentence in bold above reads as: driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: i965 gpu: i915 display-ID: :0

Greetz,
Eddy
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Hello and thank you for your response. firmware-misc-nonfree is already updated to the latest version. On boot without nomodset, the computer stalls at loading initial RAM disk.

If i boot in recovery mode, it stalls at :
[2.568917] fb0: switching to radeondrmfb from EFI VGA
[2.568925] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0 detected 2 ports

The only way it fully boots is with nomodeset=0.

Any ideas?
 
Hello again. I thought I would update you with my current attempts. Since this is just a test/practice computer, I installed Bookworm after trying a few other recommendations which didn't work. After installing, I only had ethernet but remedied it with the installer recommended for the broadcom wifi adapter. Surprisingly that actually worked so I am up and functional. However, once again I have to boot into nomodeset=0 for the boot to complete beyond initalize RAM. The graphics are better with bookworm but still not quite there. I have installed through the synaptic package manager the firmware-linux-free, firmware-linux-nonfree and firmware-misc-nonfree. I also don't know with this distro how to provide any additional information you might need that would be helpful.

Thanks for your help.
 
According to the output on graphics in post #4 there's an intel graphics card and an amd card. The amd card has the the ati driver, but the output doesn't show any driver for the intel card.

The firmware is covered by the installed firmware packages mentioned in post #9, except for the amd card which benefits from the package: firmware-amd-graphics. That should be installed if it's not already installed.

The intel driver for Xorg is supplied in the package: xserver-xorg-video-intel. You can check whether that package is installed with:
Code: 
dpkg -l | grep -i intel

If it's not installed, install it and restart the X server or reboot to see if there's a difference. Remove the nomodeset parameter for testing.

Another useful command to show which drivers are installed for the video cards is:
Code: 
[tom@min ~]$ lspci -nnkd ::300
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] [10de:128b] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GK208B [GeForce GT 710] [1462:8c93]
        Kernel driver in use: nouveau
        Kernel modules: nouveau
It's clear from the output what the driver is, in this case it's nouveau for an nvidia card. If such information is not in the output, that's an indication of the absence of the required driver.
 
Thank you osprey. I checked for the firmware-and-graphics and it is installed, as well as, xserver-xorg-video-intel. Here is the printout from the other codes you recommended:
root@:~# dpkg -l | grep -i intel
ii firmware-iwlwifi 20230210-5 all Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
ii gir1.2-ibus-1.0:amd64 1.5.27-5 amd64 Intelligent Input Bus - introspection data
ii i965-va-driver:amd64 2.4.1+dfsg1-1 amd64 VAAPI driver for Intel G45 & HD Graphics family
ii ibus 1.5.27-5 amd64 Intelligent Input Bus - core
ii ibus-data 1.5.27-5 all Intelligent Input Bus - data files
ii ibus-gtk:amd64 1.5.27-5 amd64 Intelligent Input Bus - GTK2 support
ii ibus-gtk3:amd64 1.5.27-5 amd64 Intelligent Input Bus - GTK3 support
ii ibus-gtk4:amd64 1.5.27-5 amd64 Intelligent Input Bus - GTK4 support
ii intel-media-va-driver:amd64 23.1.1+dfsg1-1 amd64 VAAPI driver for the Intel GEN8+ Graphics family
ii intel-microcode 3.20231114.1~deb12u1 amd64 Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs
ii iucode-tool 2.3.1-3 amd64 Intel processor microcode tool
ii libdrm-intel1:amd64 2.4.114-1+b1 amd64 Userspace interface to intel-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime
ii libibus-1.0-5:amd64 1.5.27-5 amd64 Intelligent Input Bus - shared library
ii libigdgmm12:amd64 22.3.3+ds1-1 amd64 Intel Graphics Memory Management Library -- shared library
ii libmfx1:amd64 22.5.4-1 amd64 Intel Media SDK -- shared library
ii python3-ibus-1.0 1.5.27-5 all Intelligent Input Bus - introspection overrides for Python (Python 3)
ii xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20210115-1 amd64 X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver
root@:~# dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg-video-intel
ii xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20210115-1 amd64 X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver
root@:~# lspci -nnkd ::300
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09)
Subsystem: Apple Inc. 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [106b:00dc]
Kernel modules: i915
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] [1002:6760]
Subsystem: Apple Inc. Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] [106b:00e1]
Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu
 
The output of the search for drivers shows that the i915 driver is not being used. The output of your machine shows:
root@:~# lspci -nnkd ::300
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09)
Subsystem: Apple Inc. 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [106b:00dc]
Kernel modules: i915
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] [1002:6760]
Subsystem: Apple Inc. Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] [106b:00e1]
Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu
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Comparing that with the output of a machine here running intel graphics is this:
Code: 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] [8086:9a49] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Lenovo TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] [17aa:22c9]
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

The i915 driver is not being used by the kernel in your machine. If the nomodeset kernel option is still present, the kernel won't use the i915 driver, so in case you haven't removed that, you ought to do that and reboot.

The output on your machine is also showing that the amd drivers are also not "in use".

You could try and generate new initramfs files since the computer was stalling at this point as mentioned in post #8 by running as root:
Code: 
update-initramfs -u -k all
and then try to boot without the nomodeset.
 
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