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On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:29:39 +0100 |
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jdm <jdm@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 03:12:49 -0400 |
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> P Levine <plevine457@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:34 PM, jdm <jdm@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > > Any thouhgts much appreciated. |
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> > I tried helping to diagnose a similar problem for a user on Reddit |
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> > recently, blackscreen/freeze with AMDGPU on boot. After trying |
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> > everything else he switched the PCI slot the card was in and it |
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> > booted up fine. He then switched the card back to the original PCI |
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> > slot and it still booted up fine. It seemed to be some weird kind |
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> > of hardware/bios hiccup. If you've tried everything else, it |
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> > wouldn't hurt to fumble around with the graphics card just to see |
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> > if it makes a difference. |
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> Well, well, well. |
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> Bizarre. took out my old radeon r9 280 card and put the RX480 amdgpu |
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> back in and rebooted to a kernel which I had configured for amdgpu |
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> and booted with no issues, not needing modeset and xorg working fine |
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> and dandy. |
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> Never seen anything like this before. Bring back the days when you had |
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> a primary and secondary hard drives on a serial bus. Far easier when |
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> you have to configure your own IRQs. |
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> Thanks for the advice. |
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> John. |
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To prove that reseating the graphics has sorted the issue I have tried |
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a few other distros and had no problems. |
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John |
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