Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/13/2016 06:09:19 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Has anyone stumbled over a display problem with this kernel? Copying the .config from 4.8.14, tweaking with oldconfig and compiling left me with a blank display and no booting activity. The display card is an AMD/ATI Tonga Radeon

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 14 Dec 2016 09:02:38 Rich Freeman wrote: > I haven't really had time to investigate but I've had an issue like > this with my radeon card (using KMS) for a few weeks now. I'm on the > 4.4 upstream kernel. > > sddm and X11 in general work just fine, but if I try to switch to > anothe

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Has anyone stumbled over a display problem with this kernel? Copying the > .config from 4.8.14, tweaking with oldconfig and compiling left me with a > blank display and no booting activity. > > The display card is an AMD/ATI

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 14 Dec 2016 15:29:12 Adam Carter wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:09 AM, Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Has anyone stumbled over a display problem with this kernel? Copying the > > .config from 4.8.14, tweaking with oldconfig and compiling left me with > > a > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 13 Dec 2016 20:46:45 Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote or forwarded: > ... I would also recommend doing a diff of the radeon related code in the > source tree. Maybe only selected files were changed and cause the issues. > It's worth a check. Good idea. I've attached the output to the bug repor

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-13 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:09 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Has anyone stumbled over a display problem with this kernel? Copying the > .config from 4.8.14, tweaking with oldconfig and compiling left me with a > blank display and no booting activity. > > The display card is an AMD/ATI

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-13 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
Frame Buffer Support? Regards On 12/13/2016 09:53 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 13 Dec 2016 19:39:09 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:09:19 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: Has anyone stumbled over a display problem with this kernel? Copying the .config from 4.8.14, tweaking wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 13 Dec 2016 19:39:09 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:09:19 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Has anyone stumbled over a display problem with this kernel? Copying > > the .config from 4.8.14, tweaking with oldconfig and compiling left me > > with a blank display and no bootin

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-13 Thread HÃ¥kon Alstadheim
Kernel now has two possible kernel modules for a lot of the radeon cards, "radeon" and "amdgpu" . Don't remember the differences, google is your friend. "amdgpu" in 4.9 supports more cards than it used to. Rather prominent in the linux-4.9 announcements. Are you now (automatically? ) loading amdgpu

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-13 Thread Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor
From: Alexander Kapshuk Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 2:46 PM To: Gentoo mailing list Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0 Forwarding the email below to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: andymenderunix Date: Tue, Dec 13

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-13 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Forwarding the email below to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: andymenderunix Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:28 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0 To: Alexander Kapshuk I second this, but I would also recommend doing a diff of the radeon related code in

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:09:19 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Has anyone stumbled over a display problem with this kernel? Copying > the .config from 4.8.14, tweaking with oldconfig and compiling left me > with a blank display and no booting activity. I don't know if it's related, but I was getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-13 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Has anyone stumbled over a display problem with this kernel? Copying the > .config from 4.8.14, tweaking with oldconfig and compiling left me with a > blank display and no booting activity. > > The display card is an AMD/ATI

[gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

2016-12-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Has anyone stumbled over a display problem with this kernel? Copying the .config from 4.8.14, tweaking with oldconfig and compiling left me with a blank display and no booting activity. The display card is an AMD/ATI Tonga Radeon R9 380X and I load the latest microcode during kerne