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dhalverson

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Registered: 2015-12-22

Posts: 21

Screen Blanking only During first couple boots

Hello, I am kind of at my wits end with this problem:

If my computer has been sitting powered off for a while and I go boot it up, my screen would go blank but my lxde would still start up, I could still access the menu by shortcuts and restart the computer. After rebooting a couple times or letting the computer stay on for a couple minutes(and do anther reboot) I could eventually get lxde to boot and have no more issues until I power off for extended period of time(restarts or power-off and back on causes no issues).

I recently added amdgpu to the Module"" area in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and this has caused the blanking issue to "start" immediately during boot(instead of randomly half way thru boot).

Can anybody help me, some sort of option? I do not really know what I am doing but it seems like this could be something to do with KMS?

lspci-k

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1576
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 80af
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1577
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 80af
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Carrizo (rev c5)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 80af
	Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
	Kernel modules: amdgpu
00:01.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 80af
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 157b
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 157c
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:02.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 157c
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:02.4 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 157c
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:03.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 157b
00:03.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 157c
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
	Kernel modules: shpchp
00:08.0 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1578
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 80af
00:09.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 157d
00:09.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 157a
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 80af
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:10.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB XHCI Controller (rev 20)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 80af
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
	Kernel modules: xhci_pci
00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 49)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 80af
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
	Kernel modules: ahci
00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller (rev 49)
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller
	Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
	Kernel modules: ehci_pci
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 4a)
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller
	Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c_piix4
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 11)
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1570
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1571
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1572
	Kernel modules: amd64_edac_mod
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1573
	Kernel driver in use: k10temp
	Kernel modules: k10temp
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1574
	Kernel driver in use: fam15h_power
	Kernel modules: fam15h_power
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1575
01:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 80af
	Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
	Kernel modules: rtsx_pci
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 07)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 80af
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 804c
	Kernel driver in use: rtl8723be
	Kernel modules: rtl8723be

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Screen Blanking only During first couple boots

it seems like this could be something to do with KMS?

What happens if you disable KMS?

It sounds like this may be temperature-related but that's just a wild guess.

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dhalverson

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Registered: 2015-12-22

Posts: 21

Re: Screen Blanking only During first couple boots

Everything boots up to the point where lxde is about to start but it freezes right there. I dont know if this is helpful but the laptop here is a brand new HP Pavilion. From what I was reading on the ATI -ArchWiki it looks like this one needs KMS enabled...

dhalverson

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Registered: 2015-12-22

Posts: 21

Re: Screen Blanking only During first couple boots

Can anyone direct me in the right direction on any temperature settings? I can't seem to find anything, or more likely the case, I am not using the proper words to do a search on this...

zzrzlk

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Registered: 2017-12-13

Posts: 2

Re: Screen Blanking only During first couple boots

I'm experiencing the same issue with a Carrizo A10-8700p APU (in a Probook 455 G3) (also with ubuntu) (with kernels 4.13, 4.14).

I installed

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linu … -next-git/

and the notebook doesn't make a blank screen during a cold boot.
Can anybody explain us the differences with the mainline kernel ?

Also when I boot gparted (debian) there is no blank screen, and I can see in journalctl "direct firmware load amdgpu/carrizo_...bin.
I never see this kind of message during any boot with Arch How can I ensure that carrizo firmware files a properly loaded ?

dhalverson

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Registered: 2015-12-22

Posts: 21

Re: Screen Blanking only During first couple boots

I still haven't figured it out. Still the same issues.