Radeon 79XX drivers are integrated into the 6.X kernel. Kernels lower than that won't really work. I don't have a MX install any more, but I'd guess that's the reason. You might try looking for the upgraded kernel. The nvidia drivers shouldn't have anything to do with it.
Ahhhh fuck that's it right there. MX's normal distribution is Debian stable and baked onto the 5.10 kernel. I have to install MX's AHS release for the 6.x kernel. I didn't even think about that.
MX is fairly integrated and I'm not sure I could upgrade the kernel in place without destroying the install, assuming I even knew how to replace such a thing.
I'm too used to having all my old hardware lol. Thank you so much!
If you plan on reinstall then try to separate the home and root partition.. it'll make future reinstalls simpler
Just to clarify for anyone reading this good advice; you want to separate the root and home partition. That allows for reinstalling the OS in your root partition without losing data in your home partition.
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you probably need to update mx-packageintaller-pkglist, current version is 22.11.01mx21 if you don't have that and it doesn't upgrade you might want to change the repo (try MX Repo Manager) refresh and try to upgrade again, then after you update that it should be available in "Popular Applications" tab in MX Package Installer.
Dunno if it will help in your particular situation, but it might keep someone else from going to deddit in the future.
When does it hang? If it's after you log into your user, you could try to instead when on the login screen open a shell by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F2, uninstall Nvidia drivers and install mesa drivers. Or maybe at least investigate further.
yeah it hangs way before the login screen. It basically hangs immediately after exiting GRUB and goes directly to a flashing cursor.
elltee explained it above.. MX Linux's stable distribution is on kernel 5.10 and I need kernel 6.x (part of their advanced hardware support release) to get AMD RDNA3 drivers. So I'll most likely be doing a full reinstall unless you know how to replace kernels in place.
I have no idea what MX is but maybe you could just compile your own? It's not that hard. If you're going to wipe the system anyway, it's an opportunity to mess around a little and learn
Just remember to
Not sure I'm feeling adventurous enough to be compiling my own kernel at this stage in the game. I might do that for some of my homelab machines as an experiment but my main computer really needs to be drop-in and go with full stability.
You should be able to boot into runlevel 1 easily and upgrade the kernel using the steps someone else already mentioned. No reason to reinstall the entire system.
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