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Tuxologie

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Registered: 2024-06-18

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Dell Precision M4800 Wayland issue - AMD Radeon HD 8870M

Hi,

I installed Arch today after having some strange issues (immediate crash with core dump) with Wayland on both KDE Plasma and GNOME.

My system has a switchable grapics unit (Intel and AMD), but the Intel is deactivated by a UEFI setting.

[tux@archlinux ~]$ fastfetch 
                  -`                     tux@archlinux
                 .o+`                    -------------
                `ooo/                    OS: Arch Linux x86_64
               `+oooo:                   Host: Precision M4800 (00)
              `+oooooo:                  Kernel: Linux 6.9.5-arch1-1
              -+oooooo+:                 Uptime: 1 hour, 49 mins
            `/:-:++oooo+:                Packages: 729 (pacman), 9 (flatpak)
           `/++++/+++++++:               Shell: bash 5.2.26
          `/++++++++++++++:              Display (AUO21ED): 1920x1080 @ 60Hz
         `/+++ooooooooooooo/`            DE: GNOME 46.2
        ./ooosssso++osssssso+`           WM: Mutter (X11)
       .oossssso-````/ossssss+`          WM Theme: Adwaita
      -osssssso.      :ssssssso.         Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4]
     :osssssss/        osssso+++.        Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4]
    /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-        Font: Cantarell (11pt) [GTK2/3/4]
  `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-      Cursor: Adwaita (24px)
 `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:     Terminal: GNOME Console 46.0
`++:.                           `-/+/    Terminal Font: Source Code Pro (10pt)
.`                                 `/    CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ (8) @ 3,70 GHz
                                         GPU: AMD Radeon HD 8870M / R9 M270X/M370X @ 0,30 GHz [Discrete]
                                         Memory: 2,14 GiB / 31,29 GiB (7%)
                                         Swap: Disabled
                                         Disk (/): 10,03 GiB / 914,82 GiB (1%) - ext4
                                         Disk (/run/media/tux/ARCH_202406): 949,97 MiB / 949,97 MiB (100%) - iso9660 [External, Read-only]
                                         Local IP (wlan0): 10.12.42.41/24 *
                                         Locale: de_DE.UTF-8

Wayland core dump: https://0x0.st/XTT3.txt

If I re-enable the switchable graphics (Intel card) Wayland runs fine.
Using X11-fallback also works flawless with the AMD Radeon HD 8870M.

Any help is much appreciated.

Last edited by Tuxologie (2024-08-30 08:26:42)

Tuxologie

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Registered: 2024-06-18

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Dell Precision M4800 Wayland issue - AMD Radeon HD 8870M

I enabled the switchable graphics according to the Arch Wiki.

Now everything is fine and Wayland keeps running.

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