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From: jdm <jdm@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU KMS Problems
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 22:29:46
Message-Id: 20170713232939.12e28083@echoes
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU KMS Problems by P Levine
1 On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 03:12:49 -0400
2 P Levine <plevine457@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:34 PM, jdm <jdm@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
5 > > Any thouhgts much appreciated.
6 >
7 > I tried helping to diagnose a similar problem for a user on Reddit
8 > recently, blackscreen/freeze with AMDGPU on boot. After trying
9 > everything else he switched the PCI slot the card was in and it booted
10 > up fine. He then switched the card back to the original PCI slot and
11 > it still booted up fine. It seemed to be some weird kind of
12 > hardware/bios hiccup. If you've tried everything else, it wouldn't
13 > hurt to fumble around with the graphics card just to see if it makes a
14 > difference.
15 >
16
17 Well, well, well.
18
19 Bizarre. took out my old radeon r9 280 card and put the RX480 amdgpu
20 back in and rebooted to a kernel which I had configured for amdgpu
21 and booted with no issues, not needing modeset and xorg working fine
22 and dandy.
23
24 Never seen anything like this before. Bring back the days when you had
25 a primary and secondary hard drives on a serial bus. Far easier when
26 you have to configure your own IRQs.
27
28 Thanks for the advice.
29
30 John.

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