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AMD GPUs are cursed for me
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It also matters what Linux distro you have. Some of them are horrible. I'm super happy with amd graphics on arch, and have no issues whatsoever, with probably 30 games in steam library that all works very well.
So I think it may be your system and what drivers you installed, or some other config.
I have a 6900 XT card, latest kernel, latest drivers. But I've had this graphics card since kernel 5.8 I think, with no issues.
I am running Arch here as well. Most people who referenced that issue I linked also seem to come from Arch. So it seems like a problem due to the "latest" kernel. I don't accept this as an excuse, though. It's still a stable kernel an I don't expect drivers to be published that were not tested in advance. And it looks like this has happened here. Maybe bad timing on my part and this was/is the only hiccup in a long time (see "cursed"), but I guess I'll find out.
Having a bleeding edge kernel can and will come back to bite you. There's a reason why many distros hold back with kernel updates for so long, there's issues that only can be found with user feedback.
From experience, "stable" in the kernel world doesn't mean much unfortunately. I encountered dozens of issues over various versions and different hardware already and it's the main reason I don't run rolling release distros on my main rig.
There's also been enough times where the latest Nvidia driver borked my test system at work so I'm fine with just not running the latest kernel instead.
I have the same problem with the LTS kernel. Just tried. First time it booted but locked up on shutdown. The next cold boot it immediately went to black screen after loading amdgpu. (
[drm:amdgpu_gfx_enable_kcq [amdgpu]] *ERROR* KCQ enable failed). Next boot too. All with kernel 6.6.14.That's strange, 6.6.14 is the same version that's on Fedora currently. My friend with a 7900 XTX is still on 6.5.0 so I can't get him to test that version right now.
Fix is merged already though: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9c2f0338bbd132a4b12b988004d796798609d297 Should hopefully not be long before it is backported.
In the linked issue the user
uncle jackwroteSo I fear that there is still a deeper issue somewhere. But I'll see what happens after those fixes get backported to 6.7 and hit archlinux. Until then I might have to live with Windows or don't reboot too often. I have yet to figure out how long I need to keep this machine off the power for it to behave like a cold boot. 10s apparently didn't cut it in my latest try (it's a new PC so I still have to learn its quirks).