On Sunday, August 30, 2015 6:11:00 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Sunday, August 30, 2015 10:51:57 PM Peter Weilbacher wrote: > > Hi Fernando, > > > > On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > 1. Add loglevel=7 to your kernel parameters and see what it prints before > it > > > hangs. > > > > That helped, it showed me something about drm, so... > > > > > 3. From your kernel parameters I assume you're using the radeon free > driver > > > right? If that's the case disable it (don't compile it in or just delete > the > > > module) and try to boot wiith a framebuffer. > > > > ... this was a good suggestion. Switching off DRM/Radeon gets me a > > kernel that boots. However, with that config I cannot run X (which then > > complains about missing kernel mode switching). If I follow > > wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide#Kernel_modesetting I again arrive at the > > kernel settings that I previously had and which didn't work with 4.1.x. > > > > Any more suggestions? > > Peter. > > > > At least you norrowed down, that was the idea. > I would suspect a new bug, so post to the radeon mailing list. Doing the git > bisect first will make it easier for them so they'll be more willing to help. I > would try booting without those radeon paremeters first. > > You could try the proprietary driver but the one in the portage tree will not > build with a kernel >3.18.19 but if you search b.g.o there are patches to make > it build. Or you could try my ebuild but I'm not sure that it will build > either since I'm using 3.18.20 now: > > https://github.com/fernando-rodriguez/portage-overlay/tree/master/x11-drivers/ati-drivers
And you should still try suggestion #2 because it's very likely to only affect one specific configuration. -- Fernando Rodriguez
