AMD 5700-XT blackscreen and crash on startx, slack -current
I have an AMD Radeon 5700-XT with a fresh and complete install of slackware current (5.4.10)
- Startx produces a black screen and a frozen computer (can't even ctl-alt-f* to get a terminal) - LSPCI lists the card by name. - DMESG does not report errors, and | grep AMD shows the amdgpu driver was loaded. I tried blacklisting radeon as per the Arch wiki. I tried both the generic and the huge kernel. Searches have been fruitless; does anyone have a suggestion? |
Pastebin Xorg.0.log?
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Dare I suggest slackware64-current ? It may be that you need a 64-bit X-window server. On the other hand, it may be that you have a working system and are not waiting long enough after "startx" for your desktop to boot.
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What DE are you trying to use? Have you tried different DEs?
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Is this a new PC, never had any OS installed before? If not, what did it work on OK last, and with which kernel, X server and amdgpu versions? IOW, has this happened with any other OS?
Same problem booting live Fedora, Knoppix, Manjaro or Tumbleweed or ???? |
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There is on M2 drive with Windows 10 on it, which I run for Adobe CS. The GPU performs as expected. The other M2 has this new install of Slackware. The motherboard is Asrock X99 with Intel i7. I previously had an Nvidia Quadro card installed, which worked in W10 and in a previous install of Slackware 14.2 (followed by -current) on the same device. I got the AMD GPU after reading years of rave reviews of AMD's Linux driver support. |
Which xorg video driver that you used? modesetting or amdgpu?
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Still no logs (Xorg.0.log) that one can check and no answer if it works with other linux live distributions so i guess we are all supposed to participate in an guessing game.
Do your CPU have an iGPU and if so does it work if you use the iGPU? |
Saying that "you (OP) didn't see anything funny" in the log files and thus not uploading them has everyone in a guessing game.
There could even be X11 (not to mention Slackware) developers on LQ.. but they're probably to busy working to respond to a poster who fails to upload logs, assuming your (OP) understanding of the problem is identical to their own. In regards to "current", as another member pointed out.. Slackware -current is a 32 bit operating system Slackware64 -current is a 64 bit operating system As Slackware does release both, specification is needed. |
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I tested CentOS 8, Solus, Manjaro, and Fedora. All crashed when starting X except Fedora, which seemed to be running in an anemic safemode although I didn't spend time examining it. Either a) the 5700-XT is not ready for prime-time under Linux or b) there's something about my GPU-MB-CPU combo that's a no-go. In either event, the fact that these distros all bump on it doesn't sound like an botched config file or missing module. With a reasonable chance that a solution may not be available, I'm just going to try a different GPU. I don't have time to do more. If anyone comes across this thread and is successfully running a 5700-XT, I'd be interested to know what worked. In the meantime, thanks to those who responded. |
You haven't mentioned any versions of the distros you tried. If you'd really like to know whether the 5700-XT is "ready", you probably should try openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora Rawhide, Mageia 8 or any other cutting edge or rolling or devel release that isn't lackadaisical about incorporating new hardware support.
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