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step-2

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Registered: 2012-05-08

Posts: 118

[solved] surface laptop 4 black screen after booting

greetings

i installed arch on my surface laptop 4 ryzen 5 13.5 inch running linux-surface kernel :

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

the keyboard works now but if i don't use nomodeset as a kernel parameter the screen just goes black and the laptop becomes unresponsive & nothing fix it but a hard reboot .

using nomodeset result in broken x server : fatal server error , no screen found .

thing i have tried :

installing amdgpu-pro , mesa-git , xorg-server-git , xforcevesa parameter , followed the amdgpu wiki page to the letter with no luck .

Last edited by step-2 (2022-07-19 08:47:53)

step-2

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Registered: 2012-05-08

Posts: 118

Re: [solved] surface laptop 4 black screen after booting

found the solution

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux- … on-on-boot