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Cavalcante

Member

Registered: 2021-06-08

Posts: 3

Linux won't boot after new video card

Hi. I just bought a new video card AMD RX6600 and my linux installation won't boot. I previsouly used the integrated graphics in the CPU (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G).

The steps are in order:

1. Press the power button
2. Choose 'archlinux' from the GRUB screen. Note: the windows installation is working fine.
3. Type in cryptroot password
4. After some text, all I get is a black screen with a flashing "_"

I never get to see the lightdm greeter. I took off the video card so I can boot in arch again.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Last edited by Cavalcante (2022-06-22 13:09:13)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,650

Re: Linux won't boot after new video card

Check whether you can switch TTYs and if you can post

sudo journalctl -b
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

if you can't reboot and add systemd.unit=multi-user.target to your kernel parameters, which should boot you to a terminal and post the same outputs but add -1 to the journal command. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

Some other general suggestions, enable early KMS for amdgpu: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start