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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Black screens on A10-8780P (Carrizo) + R7 M260/M265 (Topaz) Combo"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97055#c12">Comment # 12</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Black screens on A10-8780P (Carrizo) + R7 M260/M265 (Topaz) Combo"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97055">bug 97055</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:darktjm@gmail.com" title="Thomas J. Moore <darktjm@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Thomas J. Moore</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Josh from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=97055#c11">comment #11</a>)
<span class="quote">> I too am affected by this issue.</span >
It might help if you add yourself to the CC list. Not that anyone talks on
this bug but me.
<span class="quote">> Is this issue ever going to be fixed?</span >
I have my doubts. I have made efifb (nomodeset) my default boot now, so I can
at least use this machine. Can't adjust brightness, play games or watch
full-screen videos, but I guess I'll just have to live with that. The only way
I expect this will ever get fixed for me is if I get enough money together to
buy a new machine.
The fact is, the only changes I've noticed have been regressions. The
non-start of X in 4.8 was fixed, but later 4.8-series kernels (and 4.9 kernels
as well) seem to crash badly (panic? hard to tell, since I have no way of
knowing what happens when the screen is black -- I can't even get LEDs on the
keyboard to flash, since this piece of crap machine also suffers from a
non-linux-compatible keyboard:
<a href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/233396/system-creates-extra-shift-alt-control-keypresses/302890">http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/233396/system-creates-extra-shift-alt-control-keypresses/302890</a>,
and my attempts to get it to log to EFI have been unsuccessful). The crash
then forces a filesystem check on reboot, which takes forever and I don't have
the patience to deal with that any more. I was able to get amdgpu running
"properly" (w/o power management) in 4.8.11 eventually using a 4.4.32 kernel to
do the initial boot with power management enabled, but it's still unreliable
enough that it isn't worth trying very often.
I said I wouldn't report any more on the lack of progress, but yeah, 4.8.11 and
4.9-rc7 are still complete garbage, even worse than before.</pre>
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