<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Kernel 4.9: amdgpu regression; gui flickers; amd radeon rx 460" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99275#c19">Comment # 19</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Kernel 4.9: amdgpu regression; gui flickers; amd radeon rx 460" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99275">bug 99275</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:alexdeucher@gmail.com" title="Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>"> Alex Deucher</a> <pre>(In reply to Reimar Imhof from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=99275#c18">comment #18</a>) > That firmware kills kde / plasma5 and freezes the machine! > > What I've done: > Copied the firmware files to /lib/firmware/amdgpu/ > ran dracut to build new initrd > reboot > > graphical login comes up > after logging in to kde plasma 5 the machine freezes > > After a hard power of I logged into icewm. > That desktop came up. I opened an console. Ok. > Started dolphin. Machine has frozen immediately. Even the clock in the > desktop toolbar stopped working. > > Before starting dolphin I had a look at dmesg. I couldn't find any new error > messages. Unfortunately I do not have these messages around any more. > I also had a look at the /var/log/Xorg..log > There was no log written from the kde session freezing the machine. > > Could you please test that firmware with a kde plasma 5 desktop? Please! Can you just try updating the smc firmware?</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>