Bug 1787018 - Fedora 31, plain install from Live KDE image (and after updates) fails to include/install xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu
Summary: Fedora 31, plain install from Live KDE image (and after updates) fails to inc...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu
Version: 31
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christopher Atherton
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-12-30 11:55 UTC by Knut Omang
Modified: 2020-11-24 15:23 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-11-24 15:23:05 UTC
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Description Knut Omang 2019-12-30 11:55:58 UTC
Description of problem:

After a plain F31 install w/KDE on a new E595 Lenovo laptop with integrated AMD GPU:

lspci | grep VGA
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Picasso (rev c2)
lspci -n -s 05:00.0
05:00.0 0300: 1002:15d8 (rev c2)

suspend and resume does not work, see this thread for more details:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/LENOVO-E595-Black-screen-on-resume/m-p/4613891/highlight/false#M14202

After spending considerable time digging and looking for solutions/workarounds,
I realized that X was using radeon user mode driver against amdgpu kernel mode,
and the problem seems to be fixed by installing the amdgpu user mode package that this bug is filed against.

I have no idea whether that's supposed to work at all, but anyway as long as it is unstable 
it would be good if Fedora could make sure people do not end up in the same "hole".

Workaround/solution:

For the E595 it is likely sufficient just to include xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu in the install,
but at least include it if an AMD Picasso or similar newer device is found, in case there are
other reasons not to have this module present in other systems.
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot the system, log in as a normal KDE user
2. Close lid, use systemctl suspend or suspend from the menu (seems to work fine the first time)
3. Open lid or press power button again

Actual results:

Screen goes blank, fan spins up and system does not appear to work.
Occasionally it is possible to get in via ssh, and there are kernel errors related to amdgpu.

Expected results:

A normal resume of the desktop session

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michel Dänzer 2020-01-03 10:19:47 UTC
(In reply to Knut Omang from comment #0)
> I realized that X was using radeon user mode driver against amdgpu kernel
> mode, [...]

That's not possible; the Xorg radeon driver cannot work with the amdgpu kernel driver. What might actually have happened was that Xorg tried to use the radeon driver, which failed, so Xorg fell back to using the modesetting driver.


> I have no idea whether that's supposed to work at all, [...]

It is. The suspend/resume problem is most certainly an amdgpu kernel driver issue, and using the Xorg amdgpu driver just works around it somehow.


That said, I do support xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu getting installed by default, at least on systems with a GPU supported by the amdgpu kernel driver, or otherwise corresponding to the circumstances under which xorg-x11-drv-ati is installed by default. Reassigning to anaconda accordingly.

Comment 2 Knut Omang 2020-01-03 10:40:07 UTC
Yes, you are probably right, thanks for the clarification.

During the back and forth with this problem I seem to have forgotten to store any relevant X log file so
I am actually now not sure radeon was involved at all, but definitely a kernel driver issue.

Note that on the Lenovo thread I refer to above it is now reported as been fixed w/kernel 5.4.x, 
I haven't tested it but it should not make any difference for this bug anyway.

Comment 3 Michel Dänzer 2020-01-03 10:58:04 UTC
jadahl pointed out this is actually the "comps" component, not anaconda.

Comment 4 Kevin Fenzi 2020-01-04 18:27:33 UTC
comps is the right place to add it, but lets move to the xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu component and make sure maintainers are ok with that first.

Comment 5 Michael Catanzaro 2020-05-01 18:29:18 UTC
Adding to comps is not sufficient though, because it only affects new installs, not upgrades. A Recommends or Requires is needed somewhere as well.

Comment 6 Germano Massullo 2020-05-01 20:00:56 UTC
I apologize for the off topic, can anybody please remind me what is the difference between using amdgpu drivers from kernel or from xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu?
Some days ago I installed a fresh Fedora 31 KDE (now upgraded to 32) on a system with RX480 and xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu is not installed by default, but lsmod returns amdgpu loaded

Comment 7 Ben Cotton 2020-11-03 16:55:45 UTC
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Comment 8 Ben Cotton 2020-11-24 15:23:05 UTC
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