[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1882525] Re: [amdgpu] MATE desktop is corrupted upon login on Ryzen APU

2020-07-25 Thread Thomas Szymczak
I've discovered some useful info about this bug. First, there's a forum thread about it with lots of good info: https://ubuntu- mate.community/t/20-04-display-issues-with-amd-gpu/21648/37 Second, a new workaround. To recap, the first workaround I found was booting with nomodeset, but that disables

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1882525] Re: [amdgpu] MATE desktop is corrupted upon login on Ryzen APU

2020-06-15 Thread Thomas Szymczak
Today I had some more time to play around with my computer so I tried testing your hypothesis. I rebooted into my current software configuration with no workarounds as a control, and reproduced the bug as expected. Then I downgraded my system to the Marco version from 19.10 (1.22.3) by downloading

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1882525] Re: [amdgpu] Display is corrupted upon login on Ryzen APU

2020-06-09 Thread Thomas Szymczak
Now this is where it gets weird. Since I have Ubuntu MATE, I installed the ubuntu-desktop package to get the default GNOME environment. I kept my display manager as LightDM in case that's relevant. Then I rebooted and tested all 3 desktop modes with default kernel options. As expected, MATE is sti

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1882525] Re: Display is corrupted upon login on Ryzen APU

2020-06-08 Thread Thomas Szymczak
A quick update. I tested to see if kernel version affects this bug, and it appears not to. I booted up the previous installed kernel on my system (5.3.0-55) without the default options and got the exact same issue. Likewise, using the old kernel with nomodeset eliminates the corruption at the expen

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1882525] [NEW] Display is corrupted upon login on Ryzen APU

2020-06-08 Thread Thomas Szymczak
Public bug reported: Today I upgraded from Ubuntu MATE 19.10 to 20.04. After doing so, Ubuntu boots normally to the display manager (login screen) as expected. But once I log in, everything on the screen is cut up into horizontal slices, with each slice offset farther right than the slice above