On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 8:11 AM n952...@web.de <n952...@web.de> wrote:
> I recently reported that after rebuilding my kernel, my system doesn't > power down any more. My problems are actually much more severe. When I > bring up Firefox, my system grinds to a crawl, where it can take minutes to > echo a few characters (if at all). That's everywhwere in the window > manager, all xterm instances. > > VTs and ssh instances run fine. I'm thinking, the amdgpu module is causing > problems when features are invoked by firefox. > > This in the hopes that there were improvements to AMDGPU, but it's much > worse for me now. > > I'm running (kinda running) 4.19.72. I followed the instructions on > gentoo's AMDGPU page. > > Are is there anybody else running AMDGPU and having more luck? > > No problems with ~amd64 AMDGPU and firefox here. I even use USE +hwaccel. FWIW, USE +pgo +lto makes firefox 71 seg fault for me, but has been fine with previous versions for ages. The first thing I try when I get these sorts of issues after a kernel change is emerge @x11-module-rebuild, and I had one instance many years ago where emerge xorg-server fixed an issue.
