Hello, Peter. On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 14:03:10 +0200, Peter Böhm wrote: > Hello Alan,
> Am Mittwoch, 21. August 2024, 13:15:22 CEST schrieben Sie: > > > Boot with our GentooLiveCD (*) and ask: > > > "dmesg | grep firmware" > > I've done that, and see just three firmware files: > Have you used the GentooMinimalInstallationCD ? > Please try again with our GentoLIVE-CD. Yes, I'd misunderstood that. I downloaded the Gentoo live CD, burnt it onto a DVD and booted from it. It looks like it was trying to boot into a KDE system, but nothing stayed on my screen for more than ½ second. However I was able to type Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a console, and perform # dmesg | grep firmware. This showed a LOT of files from amdgpu being loaded. I copied all these files into my kernel config, and built the kernel. I carried on with the rest of the stuff in the installation handbook, and got to the stage of rebooting into the new system. Nothing. No trace of anything on my blank screen. I hate it when people say that configuring a kernel is easy. It isn't, never has been, and never will be. So I've got my evening to try and debug it. Yes, I'm aware that having the firmware loaded into a modular kernel would have helped here, but that's just not the way I want to go. Thanks everybody for the help! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
