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MeetingInTheMist

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Registered: 2024-02-26

Posts: 3

[Solved] Video every other boot

Hi all! Not exactly new, but having a massive brain cramp. I've got long-covid and it leaves me awfully confused a lot, so if someone would be so kind as to point me in a direction for troubleshooting, I'd be eternally grateful.

This is a relatively new, all AMD system:
Graphics: 6750 XT
CPU: Ryzen 5 7600

The trouble is, I only get video sometimes when I boot, and I'm unsure of why. From cold the system will come up all the way to Grub, but then as soon as Grub finishes and the kernel takes over I just get a black screen and the system becomes totally unresponsive (ctrl-alt-del) doesn't even work - I have press the reset button. ssh doesn't even start, and I can't seem to find anything in the logs, though that may simply be because I haven't had to do this in a while and my brain is not so good anymore.

Thanks all!

Last edited by MeetingInTheMist (2024-03-10 15:01:14)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,230

Re: [Solved] Video every other boot

On a random guess, though that should be default by now lack of early KMS: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start -- on a guess because it's stupid: disable the simpledrm device by adding "initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init" to your kernel parameters.

If neither of these help, from a working boot post the link resulting from

sudo journalctl -b-1 | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Nikolai5

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From: North West, England, UK

Registered: 2024-01-27

Posts: 276

Re: [Solved] Video every other boot

You say every other boot. Are you restarting your PC or shutting down?

Some people have reported reboot issues on some AMD GPUs, were a reboot doesn't work properly, but a shutdown does.

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MeetingInTheMist

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Registered: 2024-02-26

Posts: 3

Re: [Solved] Video every other boot

You say every other boot. Are you restarting your PC or shutting down?

Some people have reported reboot issues on some AMD GPUs, were a reboot doesn't work properly, but a shutdown does.

This is from cold - reboot always works flawlessly, oddly enough. I'm about to post a more general update as well. Thank you!

MeetingInTheMist

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Registered: 2024-02-26

Posts: 3

Re: [Solved] Video every other boot

On a random guess, though that should be default by now lack of early KMS: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start -- on a guess because it's stupid: disable the simpledrm device by adding "initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init" to your kernel parameters.

If neither of these help, from a working boot post the link resulting from

sudo journalctl -b-1 | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Thank you so much for your recommendation. Oddly, your first suggestion seems to have corrected the issue totally. Thank you again, and my apologies for such a delay in responding: Validating intermittent fixes is always a hassle.