.  Comment  I have the same board AMD a0-0000m with a Radeon ATI hd 0000. (Its on a HP notebook I got at a very good price...).  I'm still trying to make it work with the open source driver without success (x00-drivers/xf00-video-ati). I'm on Funtoo (based on gentoo) with the 0.0.0-rc0-git0 kernel, and masked versions of Xorg and video drivers, libdrm, libkms, mesa, ...). I had the same problem but I was able to connect to the machine with ssh from my other machine. You have to install & config sshd before in a chrooted shell on your machine.  in case of trouble (black screen), if you use grub to start, try to edit the grub command and add "vga=000" kernel options or (radeon.modeset=0). I can't confirm now. But I think the AMD ATI Radeon HD 0000 is only usable with the proprietary drivers from ATI. This card is too recent right now (mid april 0000). May be in a few months it will be ready.  Comment  I have the same board AMD a0-0000m with a Radeon ATI hd 0000. (Its on a HP notebook I got at a very good price...).  I'm still trying to make it work with the open source driver without success (x00-drivers/xf00-video-ati). I'm on Funtoo (based on gentoo) with the 0.0.0-rc0-git0 kernel, and masked versions of Xorg and video drivers, libdrm, libkms, mesa, ...). I had the same problem but I was able to connect to the machine with ssh from my other machine. You have to install & config sshd before in a chrooted shell on your machine.  in case of trouble (black screen), if you use grub to start, try to edit the grub command and add "vga=000" kernel options or (radeon.modeset=0). I can't confirm now. But I think the AMD ATI Radeon HD 0000 is only usable with the proprietary drivers from ATI. This card is too recent right now (mid april 0000). May be in a few months it will be ready.  