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iara

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Registered: 2018-12-24

Posts: 5

Black screen and unresponsive system after boot

Hello

I have this problem since two weeks. Every morning, when i power on the computer i get a black screen and unresponsive system (there is no grub screen). No shortcut works: ctrl alt supr, alt sysrq r, ctrl alt f4-f9-f1, etc, so, i have to shutdown via the power button. First it was only a black screen for day, now i have to shutdown four times until my pc boots properly. There is no logs from these previous boots in journal. I downgraded the lts kernel, change kernels (zen, arch, lts) but nothing works.I did an fsck to my hard drive and it gave no errors.

Kernel: 4.20.0-arch1-1-ARCH 
DE: KDE 
CPU: AMD Athlon II M300 (2) @ 2.000GHz 
GPU: AMD ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250 
Memory: 1453MiB / 2744MiB
linux-firmware-20181218.0f22c85-1

Xorg.0.log:

[    55.113] (II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "LGD", prod id 450
[    55.113] (II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[    55.113] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1366x768"x0.0   72.30  1366 1414 1446 1526  768 771 776 790 -hsync -vsync (47.4 kHz eP)
[    56.491] (EE) RADEON(0): drmmode_do_crtc_dpms cannot get last vblank counter
[    56.530] (II) RADEON(0): Allocate new frame buffer 1280x1024
[    56.533] (II) RADEON(0): VRAM usage limit set to 224125K
[    65.514] (II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "LGD", prod id 450
[    65.514] (II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[    65.514] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1366x768"x0.0   72.30  1366 1414 1446 1526  768 771 776 790 -hsync -vsync (47.4 kHz eP)

Last edited by iara (2019-01-02 14:45:05)

sammiev

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Registered: 2018-12-22

Posts: 95

Re: Black screen and unresponsive system after boot

Hi, not much help here but the same problem.
I have been started xfce4 from the command line as Lightdm and most other DM are doing the same with kernel 4.20 and now 4.14 since yesterday.
Tried a fresh install on another drive yesterday with GDM and it works as expected.
Command line works as expected and a temp work around for now.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,697

Re: Black screen and unresponsive system after boot

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … TTY_output ?

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sammiev

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Registered: 2018-12-22

Posts: 95

Re: Black screen and unresponsive system after boot

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … TTY_output ?

Fixed the problem nicely.
Thank You!