On Thursday 21 Jan 2016 08:56:23 Chan Ju Ping wrote:
On Thursday 21 Jan 2016 08:48:42 Bruno Friedmann wrote:
On Wednesday 20 January 2016 20.55:29 Chan Ju Ping wrote:
On Wednesday 20 Jan 2016 20:50:13 Chan Ju Ping wrote:
I just installed a new Radeon R9 380 card today, and tried booting into Tumbleweed. Grub loaded without issue but when it was suppose to show the screen to input my LUKS password, only the following error messages appear:
EDAC sbridge: ECC is disabled. Aborting EDAC sbridge: Couldn't find mci handler amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
I have Ubuntu loaded in a separate partition to boot into which also briefly shows something similar, but immediately loads lightdm without issue. I would not the Ubuntu installation is running the proprietary drivers, but not Tumbleweed.
What packages am I suppose to install to get the card working properly on Tumbleweed?
Sorry, I meant Ubuntu is running the fglrx drivers but not Tumbleweed. Sort of garbled my sentence there.
I don't know if the last fglrx packaged I have can really help with the newer card repo http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/amd-fglrx/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
wiki page https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AMD_fglrx
It's not the latest published by AMD, (end of december), but I didn't get news from our script maintainer Sebastian Siebert, which normall include special patches to make fglrx working with very recent kernel. At least the rpm version can be cleanup easily.
For tumbleweed, I really recommends to use the free drivers (but sometimes this one lack good support for latest chips).
Quite so. I learnt it the hard way that the proprietary drivers are hard to set up correctly last year for Tumbleweed. Don't really want to repeat the experience.
Perhaps you can edit your boot line (type e on the grub line) use arrow to move to kernel line and add a nomodeset
Thanks. With this I can boot into Tumbleweed, though the video drivers being loaded appear to be the unoptimised ones, as my screen is lagging quite badly. I am running updates now to see if anything is fixed.
You didn't tell us what was the previous card installed.
The previous working card was the Radeon HD 5450. It was a reliable workhorse that gave me no issues. I bought it to replace an R9 270X card that occasionally failed to output anything onto the screen while running.
This could be a case of superbly bad timing. At the same time I managed to enter and run the update, the terminal output showed I have run out of diskspace. A quick check showed I had ran out of inode space, probably because all of the old kernels are still installed! I had assumed Tumbleweed would automatically remove old kernels but that appears to not be the case. I cannot get yast2 to run as sudo in tty1, and though the desktop ran briefly it is now a blank screen once more. I want to be careful about not borking my installation, so how should I proceed from here?