Description of problem: X won't start with the amdgpu on HP 170g121wm laptop Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Constant Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. 3. Actual results: fancy black screen Expected results: X prompt will be highly desirable at this point. Additional info: I initially posted the information on LQ - https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-laptop-and-netbook-25/fedora27-amd-carrizo-4175618793/ Here is the latest log and current config: https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/oYVzqACKKrOvAurqENYO6A - Xorg.log [code] [root@hp ~]# ls -l /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ total 0 [root@hp ~]# rpm -qa | grep xorg abrt-addon-xorg-2.10.5-1.fc27.x86_64 xorg-x11-xinit-1.3.4-16.fc27.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-utils-7.7-23.fc27.x86_64 xorg-x11-utils-7.5-25.fc27.x86_64 xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.9-9.fc27.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.5-18.fc27.noarch xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu-1.3.0-3.fc27.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-common-1.19.5-1.fc27.x86_64 xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.7-21.fc27.x86_64 xorg-x11-font-utils-7.5-35.fc27.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.5-18.fc27.noarch xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.7-23.fc27.noarch xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.19.5-1.fc27.x86_64 [root@hp ~]# inxi -Fxmz System: Host: hp Kernel: 4.13.16-300.fc27.x86_64 x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.2.1 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 (Gtk 2.24.31) Distro: Fedora release 27 (Twenty Seven) Machine: Device: laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Notebook serial: <filter> Mobo: HP model: 80B0 v: 81.29 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F.19 date: 05/27/2016 Battery BAT0: charge: 39.7 Wh 98.8% condition: 40.2/40.2 Wh (100%) model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: Charging CPU: Quad core AMD A10-8700P Radeon R6 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G (-MCP-) arch: Excavator rev.1 cache: 4096 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 14372 clock speeds: max: 1800 MHz 1: 1300 MHz 2: 1800 MHz 3: 1300 MHz 4: 1300 MHz Memory: Array-1 capacity: 16 GB devices: 3 EC: None Device-1: Bottom-Slot 1 (left) size: 4 GB speed: 1600 MT/s type: DDR3 part: 8KTF51264HZ-1G9P1 Device-2: Bottom-Slot 2 (right) size: 4 GB speed: 1600 MT/s type: DDR3 part: 8KTF51264HZ-1G9P1 Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Carrizo bus-ID: 00:01.0 Display Server: X.org 1.19.5 drivers: amdgpu (unloaded: modesetting) Resolution: 1280x800 Advanced Data: N/A for root Audio: Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Device 157a driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:09.2 Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:01.1 Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.16-300.fc27.x86_64 Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 IF: eno1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> Card-2: Realtek RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8188ee port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter> Drives: HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (14.4% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: HGST_HTS541010A9 size: 1000.2GB temp: 27C Partition: ID-1: / size: 394G used: 11G (3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 ID-2: /boot size: 283M used: 268M (100%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 ID-3: /home size: 394G used: 116G (31%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-2 ID-4: swap-1 size: 8.59GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-1 RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 30.9C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A Info: Processes: 146 Uptime: 1:37 Memory: 252.9/7490.6MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.2.1 Client: Shell (bash 4.4.121) inxi: 2.3.43 [/code]
the best i can get the laptop to do is to set "nomodsetting" into boot params and get the low resolution terminal.
i just came across a bug/discussion on freedesktop - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95306 that looks painfully similar to my situation.
Created attachment 1363751 [details] /var/log/messages with nomodeset. removed quite, rhgb removed all params but nomodeset and booted into init 3 - have terminals in 800x600 ( it seems)
The issue seemed to be deeper than X - kernel amdgpu. After switching to nint3 ,i was not able to reliable boot to see the terminals. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95306 With new 4.15 i can ( on init 3 ) see the terminals. So i think the X behaviour i descripbed here is just a symptom of larger underlying issue. As such i'm closing this bug.