One thing I forgot to mention: it's only happened so far, when I've been using my HDMI monitor. It never occurred in the 3/4 year before that, before I compiled with the AMDGPU facility.
Thank you so much for your mention of the magik sysreq key and reisub. I didn't know about those. Now I have the courage to use my HDMI monitor again. > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. August 2018 um 23:22 Uhr > Von: "Daniel Salas Rodriguez" <daniel.sa...@saltedskies.com> > An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Betreff: Re: Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU eventually hangs my system > > I have a similar problem with my machine. Ever since >=4.17.something > I've had the mouse and keyboard stop working in X randomly, and usually > reconnecting them fixes it, the glaring difference is my GPU is Nvidia. > > I noticed the system was not really hanging because one hang I tried > doing a magic sysrq reisub and the keyboard did not respond. Could it be > the same issue? > > On 8/22/18 1:46 PM, cts.priv...@web.de wrote: > > Thank you for the feedback. You have have a total hang but for mouse > > movements, is that correct? > > > > uname -r says: > > > > 4.9.76-gentoo-r1 > > > > Is that the kernel version? I wonder if I should try to get a newer kernel > > from gentoo... > > > > I wonder if anyone at gentoo could supply a maillist URL from the people > > doing AMDGPU? > > > > > > > >> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. August 2018 um 21:29 Uhr > >> Von: "Rich Freeman" <ri...@gentoo.org> > >> An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > >> Betreff: Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU eventually hangs my system > >> > >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 3:06 PM <cts.priv...@web.de> wrote: > >>> I finally got my kernel rebuilt with support for the AMDGPU. ... Then > >>> my system started hanging. > >>> > >> I've had the same issues. On recent kernels like 4.17.17 it isn't too > >> bad, but sometimes it will hang on boot or on shutdown. Hangs during > >> running aren't as common, but I've seen one or two. I'm hoping it > >> gets sorted out in future kernels. > >> > >> I'm running upstream kernels so this isn't a Gentoo issue. > >> > >> -- > >> Rich > >> > >> > >
