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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 65,831

Re: The problem with the new update linux-firmware [SOLVED]

Please use [code][/code] tags, not "quote" tags. Edit your post in this regard.

There's no "probe with driver amdgpu failed with  -22" - was that just because of "nomodeset" at the time?
There're no relevant kernel errors at all, userspace issue ? (dunst dies in glib)
And apparently this is also not related to any firmware.

Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

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

and

loginctl session-status

If you're running a compositor (picom), kill that.
If you're starting the session w/ xinit/startx, see the last link below.

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czert

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Registered: 2015-05-23

Posts: 5

Re: The problem with the new update linux-firmware [SOLVED]

Yes, I now think I got confused and the "probe with driver amdgpu failed with  -22" was from a boot with "nomodeset". I'm sorry.

I'm not running X or wayland, I'm only booting to tty. That might be the reason for dunst failing. I've collected journals from linux-firmware-20250508.788aadc8-2 and from an up-to-date system with linux-firmware-amdgpu 20250627-1 and they seem identical, so I'm only posting the ones from the updated system.

journalctl -b: http://0x0.st/8091.txt
loginctl session-status: http://0x0.st/809e.txt

Please let me know if this doesn't seem relevant to the linux-firmware update, I'll start a new thread in the newbie corner so as not to pollute this thread any further. Also, thanks for your help!

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 65,831

Re: The problem with the new update linux-firmware [SOLVED]

There're no obvious errors…
Add

nvidia_drm.modeset=1

to the https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters to block the simpledrm device (we just abuse that side effect and don't care that there's no nvidia device) and disable asusd.
Then run and post

for OUT in /sys/class/drm/card*; do echo $OUT; edid-decode $OUT/edid; echo "================="; done

You'll need https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/v4l-utils/ - maybe we can just force an output, https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/modedb.rst

I'll start a new thread in the newbie corner so as not to pollute this thread any further.

We'll see and in doubt just request the subthread to be split off.

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czert

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Registered: 2015-05-23

Posts: 5

Re: The problem with the new update linux-firmware [SOLVED]

Turns out, my laptop screen brightness just somehow got set to zero during or after the update. "nomodeset" prevented applying the zero brightness. And as I never touch the brightness setting and have no shortcuts defined to change it, I had no idea and took me a long time to notice.

Thanks for all your help and sorry for wasting your time.