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AMD GPUs are cursed for me (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by aksdb@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Each time I try AMD graphics, something is fucked for me. Back with fglrx, fglrx just sucked, so I used Nvidia. Then I had an AMD right around when they finally had opensource drivers, but it was still buggy as hell. So I went with Nvidia again (first a GTX 790, then a GTX 1060). In the meantime I had a new work notebook where I also went with an AMD APU, and had driver crashes for a long time when I was in video calls and it had to decode multiple streams. That thankfully stabilized with Linux 6.4.

Since sooo many people in the community swear by AMD, I thought "dammit, let's try it again for my new desktop" and got an 7800rx ... and I have to reboot ~5 times until I finally make it to a running xserver or wayland session. Apparently I am hit by this problem (at least I hope so). But that doesn't even read nice ... the fix seems to be to revert another fix for powermanagement. So I either have a mostly non-booting card or suboptimal power management.

I start to regret having chosen AMD .... again :-/ I seem to be cursed.

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[-] aksdb@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I have the same problem with the LTS kernel. Just tried. First time it booted but locked up on shutdown. The next cold boot it immediately went to black screen after loading amdgpu. ([drm:amdgpu_gfx_enable_kcq [amdgpu]] *ERROR* KCQ enable failed). Next boot too. All with kernel 6.6.14.

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 10 months ago

That's strange, 6.6.14 is the same version that's on Fedora currently. My friend with a 7900 XTX is still on 6.5.0 so I can't get him to test that version right now.

Fix is merged already though: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9c2f0338bbd132a4b12b988004d796798609d297 Should hopefully not be long before it is backported.

[-] aksdb@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

In the linked issue the user uncle jack wrote

I've set up Fedora Workstation 39 with hibernate to rule out potential issues caused by my current system. Rebooting from Linux to Linux still leads to dark boots before reaching the OS. This has kernel 6.6.12. Cold boots seem to be fine after having cut power to the PSU earlier.

So I fear that there is still a deeper issue somewhere. But I'll see what happens after those fixes get backported to 6.7 and hit archlinux. Until then I might have to live with Windows or don't reboot too often. I have yet to figure out how long I need to keep this machine off the power for it to behave like a cold boot. 10s apparently didn't cut it in my latest try (it's a new PC so I still have to learn its quirks).

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