switching to Radeon, installing linux-firmware, boot freezes

ExecutorElassus

I'm following this guide, and I got to the point where I emerged linux-firmware. I haven't done anything with the config file, but two things happened when I instelled it:

first, despite using 'USE="unknown-license" emerge linux-firmware', it still emerged it without that flag

second, booting froze at

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 9:12 pm Post subject:

ExecutorElassus,

emerging linux-firmware dumps about 700MB of firmware files into /lib/firmware, replacing what you already had.
The config file lets you eliminate the rubbish on updates.

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 6:16 am Post subject:

Hi Neddy,

I was instructed by that guide to use the unknown-license flag for the AMDGPU firmware. So how do I force it? And since the machine worked fine in its old configuration without that package, I assume I can just go through and delete everything else, yes?

I am unsure if booting actually froze or just the console driver broke. How do I tell the difference? The text is white on black and the same console font as the horrible low-res default.

It will take me some time to paste those outputs, but I'll do that later today.

Cheers,

EE

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 12:34 pm Post subject:

ExecutorElassus,

USE=unknown-license does the following.

pietinger · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:44 pm Post subject:

ExecutorElassus,

which file did you put in -> ?

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:53 pm Post subject:

@pietinger: I did not put anything there. The card is a Radeon 5700 XT (codename Navi10). What should I put there?

@Neddy: when I booted up this morning, I got a bunch of warnings about drives that were "not cleanly unmounted", which means it got further into the boot process than was showing. So your suspicion is correct: it's booting, but not with a working console driver.

My solution to pasting stuff from that machine was to plug the laptop into the same router and ssh over, like in the good old days. Here is my current /boot/grub/grub.cfg:

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:59 pm Post subject:

pastebin of /usr/src/linux/.config: https://dpaste.com/GVLB92WRV
pastebin of 'lspci -nnk': https://dpaste.com/5ZWDSAM7V

pietinger · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 2:50 pm Post subject:

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 3:35 pm Post subject:

@pietinger:

I updated that, and now the framebuffer works right on boot up, huzzah! It switches over to small text right at the point where it froze the last time, so Neddy was right that it was a lack of a console driver.

So now I'm at the login, and I can't start the X server. Here's /var/log/Xorg.0.log: https://dpaste.com/2XE6BZYJV

Here's xorg.conf: https://dpaste.com/89HXAJK2A

Thanks for the help!

EE

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 3:55 pm Post subject:

UPDATE: edited xorg.conf, replacing all instances of "radeon" with "amdgpu" and now it gets much further into X startup, but still fails with the following logfile: https://dpaste.com/DMCCQCTGX

Progress! (?)

pietinger · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 4:56 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 4:58 pm Post subject:

Fails for me too.
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ExecutorElassus · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 5:09 pm Post subject:

wgetpaste is also failing with an Internal Server Error (500). I got that link to load once, but then reload failed.

So, maybe the website is having Issues™. Let me try a different one. Haha, just kidding, they're all failing!

I'm going to guess Amazon or somebody who's hosting all this stuff is having problems. It worked for me OK half an hour ago, so maybe try again in a bit?

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 5:21 pm Post subject:

UPDATE: I did it the hard way and pasted it manually: https://bpa.st/M3EA

pietinger · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 5:29 pm Post subject:

Please give us the output of "emerge --info" and if you have any files in "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" these also.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 5:29 pm Post subject:

ExecutorElassus'

Xorg crashed.

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 7:06 pm Post subject:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf: https://bpa.st/7Y5A
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-inputs.conf: https://bpa.st/YNAA
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/12-keyboard.conf: https://bpa.st/CPUQ
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-opengl.conf: https://bpa.st/WPNQ

moving 20-opengl.conf to 20-opengl.conf.old didn't seem to help.

Also, commenting out the sections in "Screen", so they now read as follows:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 7:29 pm Post subject:

ExecutorElassus,

Xorg should just work on one display with to xorg.conf at all.

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 7:42 pm Post subject:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log with hidden xorg.conf and 20-opengl: https://bpa.st/SRMQ

I'm running startx as root right now (normally I run lightdm to log in). I know this is Bad Form

EE

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 7:59 pm Post subject:

ExecutorElassus,

Thats the same error and all acceleration is disabled still.

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 8:05 pm Post subject:

emerge --info: https://bpa.st/OKUA

Cheers

(I should also mention I do not have eselect-opengl installed. Is there some other way to set the opengl module? That package is masked on my system)

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:07 pm Post subject:

ExecutorElassus,

ExecutorElassus · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:28 pm Post subject:

oh for crying out loud.

Once again, the solution was something dumb I'd overlooked: I never remerged mesa.

X server is running, and I even tested one of my games and it worked flawlessly. Now I just have to redo my FVWM config files because I now have, as a bonus, the desktop spread across both screens rather than having two separate X servers.

Thank you for the help. It appears to work now.

huzzah!