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MAYBL8

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Registered: 2022-01-14

Posts: 212

Fixed my Radeon R7 card / mesa update problem

If you have the R7 card like I have , I was having login screen lockup issues after the mesa update.
Here is the card I have:

[demo@arch-linux ~]$ inxi -Gxxx
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Tobago PRO [Radeon R7 360 / R9 OEM] vendor: Dell
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-2 pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DVI-I-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:665f
    class-ID: 0300 temp: 48.0 C
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting,vesa
    alternate: fbdev dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-0 model: Acer G215HV
    serial: LRN080024220 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102
    size: 477x268mm (18.78x10.55") diag: 547mm (21.5") modes: max: 1920x1080
    min: 720x400
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
    device: 1 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
    inactive: gbm,wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.0.1-arch1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon R7 360 Series (radeonsi
    bonaire LLVM 16.0.6 DRM 3.54 6.6.17-1-lts) device-ID: 1002:665f
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.276 layers: 1 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0
    type: discrete-gpu hw: amd driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:665f

I installed the amdgpu drivers from the AMDGPU arch wiki page
and set these settings in my kernel parameters:

radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1

Hope this helps others

OSKiller

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Registered: 2018-12-17

Posts: 6

Re: Fixed my Radeon R7 card / mesa update problem

Where exactly should I put it?

d.ALT

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Registered: 2019-05-10

Posts: 920

Re: Fixed my Radeon R7 card / mesa update problem

Where exactly should I put it?

set these settings in my kernel parameters:

radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters

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OSKiller

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Registered: 2018-12-17

Posts: 6

Re: Fixed my Radeon R7 card / mesa update problem

Where exactly should I put it?

set these settings in my kernel parameters:

radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters

I'd like to know exact filename where I can put this with provided syntax.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,831

Re: Fixed my Radeon R7 card / mesa update problem

This can be different for everyone which is why you need to read the linked wiki page and apply it to your actual situation (hint the wiki page contains subsections for nearly every bootloader, look at the section of the bootloader you're using).

This particular set of parameters could also be added independently of the bootloader via a modprobe config... https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU … parameters

Last edited by V1del (2024-02-22 10:45:38)

MAYBL8

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Registered: 2022-01-14

Posts: 212

Re: Fixed my Radeon R7 card / mesa update problem

I only loaded the amdgpu drivers and added the parameters in GRUB in /etc/default/grub file

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1"

That is all I had to do.

nikzmx

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Registered: 2024-02-22

Posts: 1

Re: Fixed my Radeon R7 card / mesa update problem

Same thing for me, no one graphical environment works correctly. Someone knows where I can leave a bug report for Mesa, I hope they fix it. Thanks for the fix!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,831

Re: Fixed my Radeon R7 card / mesa update problem

It's already reported and has a fix pending: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mes … te_2290167 but as mentioned above, it can be workarounded by switching to amdgpu assuming your GPU is eligible

Last edited by V1del (2024-02-22 12:36:14)