No luck with the daily live-cd, some of the kernel messages fly by and when it tries to change graphics modes for the first time, black screen. With 16.04 it would sometimes get to the desktop and then would go to black screen.
I also found this bug report describing the same exact problem: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95306 ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #95306 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95306 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651924 Title: [HP Pavilion Notebook - 15-ab114no] Intermittent black screen To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu/+bug/1651924/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs