On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 12:52 AM, jdm <j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:29:39 +0100 > jdm <j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 03:12:49 -0400 >> P Levine <plevine...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:34 PM, jdm <j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk> wrote: >> > > Any thouhgts much appreciated. >> > >> > I tried helping to diagnose a similar problem for a user on Reddit >> > recently, blackscreen/freeze with AMDGPU on boot. After trying >> > everything else he switched the PCI slot the card was in and it >> > booted up fine. He then switched the card back to the original PCI >> > slot and it still booted up fine. It seemed to be some weird kind >> > of hardware/bios hiccup. If you've tried everything else, it >> > wouldn't hurt to fumble around with the graphics card just to see >> > if it makes a difference. >> > >> >> Well, well, well. >> >> Bizarre. took out my old radeon r9 280 card and put the RX480 amdgpu >> back in and rebooted to a kernel which I had configured for amdgpu >> and booted with no issues, not needing modeset and xorg working fine >> and dandy. >> >> Never seen anything like this before. Bring back the days when you had >> a primary and secondary hard drives on a serial bus. Far easier when >> you have to configure your own IRQs. >> >> Thanks for the advice. >> >> John. >> >> > To prove that reseating the graphics has sorted the issue I have tried > a few other distros and had no problems. > > John >
Not sure what it is with AMDGPU that makes it so quirky. Similar problem as https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/6gd4xh/having_kernel_and_xorg_issues_on_new_install_can/dj07pyl/
