Re: [gentoo-user] AMD Radeon R7 370 (Pitcairn) causing the bootup to hang

2020-05-04 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 08:53:18PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > What CONFIG_FB options are enabled? I dont have CONFIG_FB_EFI set to try > removing that. I can't disable FB_EFI as I want to use the E.F.I.\ framebuffer as my terminal. Nonetheless, I have just discovered I am a useless article

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD Radeon R7 370 (Pitcairn) causing the bootup to hang

2020-05-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 4 May 2020 01:21:09 BST Ashley Dixon wrote: > Any help with this would be appreciated. I'm moving away from NVIDIA due to > the requirement of proprietary drivers to get any decent performance, > however now it feels as though the AMD drivers, although open-source, > consist of too man

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD Radeon R7 370 (Pitcairn) causing the bootup to hang

2020-05-04 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 10:21 AM Ashley Dixon wrote: > Hi gentoo-user, > > I'm attempting to configure a mid-range video card: the Radeon R7 370. > Running > on the Pitcairn chipset and a member of the Southern Islands family, > I am > surprised at the complexity of setting up the Radeon dr

[gentoo-user] AMD Radeon R7 370 (Pitcairn) causing the bootup to hang

2020-05-03 Thread Ashley Dixon
Hi gentoo-user, I'm attempting to configure a mid-range video card: the Radeon R7 370. Running on the Pitcairn chipset and a member of the Southern Islands family, I am surprised at the complexity of setting up the Radeon driver in comparison to its NVIDIA counterpart. I followed [1] car