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