Did my graphics card get damaged?

[Bridgman, John]

For clarity, are you saying that when you go back to whatever distro you had installed on the machine previously it is still  not booting correctly ?

The only problems I see in the xorg log are the following lines at the end, but not sure if they are serious or not. 

[   205.542] (WW) RADEON(0): flip queue failed: Invalid argument
[   205.542] (WW) RADEON(0): Page flip failed: Invalid argument
[   205.544] (WW) RADEON(0): flip queue failed: Invalid argument
[   205.544] (WW) RADEON(0): Page flip failed: Invalid argument

If it makes you feel any better I just ran into a similar problem installing latest Ubuntu 17.10 on a newer laptop - no POST, no display at all. Haven't had time to mess with it to figure out what the problem is but will try to make time.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: amd-gfx [mailto:amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of
>Vladimir Klebanov
>Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2017 4:08 PM
>To: amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
>Subject: Did my graphics card get damaged?
>
>Hello,
>
>I have an older T40p Thinkpad with an ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 / ATI RV250
>(M9).
>
>I recently tried to boot the latest OpenSuSE Tumblewewd live USB distribution
>on it. The text part went well but the process of starting X / KDE did not go
>beyond a black screen.
>
>Since then, the laptop refuses to boot. It powers up, but the screen remains
>completely black and there are no beeps (i.e., no POST).
>
>I attach the Xorg.0.log. Any ideas on what happened or what could bring the
>laptop back to life?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Vladimir