On 09/12/2021 13:08, Patrik Jakobsson wrote:
On Thu, 2021-12-09 at 10:22 +0100, Frans de Boer wrote:
On 09/12/2021 02:25, Juan Erbes wrote:
El mié, 8 dic 2021 a las 16:28, Frans de Boer (<frans@fransdb.nl>) escribió:
On 08/12/2021 19:58, Patrik Jakobsson wrote:
On Wed, 2021-12-08 at 19:37 +0100, Frans de Boer wrote:
LS,
Recently I bought a Radeon RX 6600 XT card from Gigabyte. But I noticed quite quickly that my system has issues. 95% of the time I try to wake the system - only the screen is switched off after sometime, no system suspend - the system input and display freezes. I noticed that the drive LED is still working, so assume that the rest of the system is still working.
Thinking that the PSU might not up-to it's task with this new card, I upgraded that too. It seemed to go better, but still have these freezes from time to time. Below is a snippet from the log file around the time the system freezes. The GPU seems to have issues, from which the software does not seem to recover:
Frans:
I mean they are a hardware problem, like the PCIe specs, because Your motherboard is PCI-Express 2.0, and the video card is PCI-Express 4.0.
I have a motherboard Asrock 980DE3/U3S3 (PCI-Express 2.0) with a FX-8320E CPU and a Radeon RX-580 GPU without issues in Tumbleweed.
Regards, Juan Oh, I thought it was an PCIe-3.0 version of the bus, but your right: finally checked the manual ;)
For many years I tried to avoid to upgrade the CPU with ditto MB since the system is still running good and is fast enough for what I am doing - Office, Video/Audio processing, Development. To keep the system running, I now need to switch to the system console whenever I pause using the system. This is because that console does not get switched off during the display sleep. This means a constant power usage for no practical use. This is currently my only workaround that seems to work.
After my switch to an 4K monitor, I had to retire my NVIDIA GF9600 GTX card. But due to the lack/availability of modern passive cooled AMD graphics cards, I needed this card with it's semi-active/passive cooling. I don´t play games on the computer - maybe when I am getting senile I might ;)
So, I for now stick to switching to the system console from time to time and hope there is a fix for it in the future. In thery, PCIe 4.0 should work in a PCIe 2.0 slot. I still think it might be worth trying a 5.16 kernel as I suggested in the bug report.
There are others with similar problems: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1819 As soon as Tumbleweed offers this, I can try this. I might take a week or so after launch of 5.16, before OpenSuse will provide it.