Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

2019-08-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2019-08-29 11:29+0200 Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: I'm seeing the same [instabilities] with RX 570 (which according to Wikipedia should be the same architecture as your RX 550) and the stable Buster release, both with the standard 4.19 kernel and the 5.2 kernel from buster-backports. The

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

2019-08-29 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 11:34:58AM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2018-06-02 10:07-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > > The propagation of kernel 4.16.12 from Sid to Buster has greatly > > improved this situation, i.e., no lock ups so far (uptime approaching > > 3 days since I switched to 4.16.12

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

2018-08-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
I avoided trying early kernel-4.17.x versions, but yesterday I updated from kernel-4.16.x to kernel 4.17.17-1, but frankly that change has not helped this lockup problem at all. For example, after trying direct use (with a KDE desktop if that makes any difference) for the first time with that

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

2018-06-23 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2018-06-02 10:07-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: The propagation of kernel 4.16.12 from Sid to Buster has greatly improved this situation, i.e., no lock ups so far (uptime approaching 3 days since I switched to 4.16.12 from 4.16.5) and may have completely solved it. [...] Well, further

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

2018-06-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
The propagation of kernel 4.16.12 from Sid to Buster has greatly improved this situation, i.e., no lock ups so far (uptime approaching 3 days since I switched to 4.16.12 from 4.16.5) and may have completely solved it. For further details see .

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

2018-05-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
So far my experiment to bypass the RX 550 by displaying on another computer has been a success, i.e., no lock up issues have been encountered under this mode of operation. So it is a rather short (roughly one day) test so far but still consistent with the hypothesis that the lock ups are likely

Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up

2018-05-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Package: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu Version: 18.0.1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The lock ups for the AMD RX 550 graphics card I have been experiencing occur on time scales of a few hours after a boot to up to a maximum of two days after a reboot. The frequency of those backups is the