Just as it says in the title. It worked on all previous kernels; it works on 6.17.11 with the Radeon driver.
The title says 6.17.11 does not work but the you state it does work.
Can you be clear on which kernel works abd which does not.
If you read what I wrote: it works with the Radeon driver, but not with the AMDGPU driver. All previous kernels have worked with AMDGPU.
I’d assumed that the radeon driver was the same thing as the amdgpu driver, my mistake!
So that other people reading this know what to do in the same situation.
What did you do to switch the drivers?
Radeon is the default driver for GCN 1st and 2nd gen. (Radeon HD 7970 is 1st gen GCN.) To use AMDGPU with those cards, you need to pass two arguments to the kernel at boot time. If those arguments are not present in the kernel command line, it will default to Radeon.
However, using the Radeon driver is not the ideal solution – mainly because it does not support Vulkan.
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All the partuclars can be found on the AMDGPU page of the Arch wiki.
I’ve done a little more research and found several bug reports about a regression in 6.17.11 related to GCN 1.0 on AMDGPU. When I get a free afternoon, I’m going to install Arch (which has moved to 6.18) on another drive to see if it does the same thing.
FYI: 6.18 is available in fedora koji for testing I hear.
I don’t know what that is.
It’s okay; we’ve just had a big snow storm and I can’t get to work today, so I’ve got time now to fart around with this.
6.18.2 was released today, but it has not been buildfor fedora yet.
Installed Arch on a spare SSD (I didn’t know arch-install-scripts was in the Fedora repos) and it boots properly with AMDGPU enabled on kernel 6.18.1.
Hopefully this issue will be resolved when Fedora moves to 6.18.
Koji builds of 6.18.1 and 6.18.2 did not solve the issue.
I’m also having the same issue I just upgraded from 6.17.7-300fc43.x86_64 43 KDE Plasma to 6.17.12-300.fc43.x86_64 KDE Plasma and got this bug of getting stuck in a black screen.
I have a PC with an AMD GPU Radeon R7240/340 that is using amdgpu instead of Radeon.
I guess that until a fix comes out I’ll stick to 6.17.7-300fc43.x86_64
If you can live without Vulkan it works fine with the Radeon driver.
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Not worth it for me, I did a lot of testing to see which driver will work best for my hardware based on FPS for Flight Simulator and Refresh Rate for my monitor, Radeon’s output for my monitor is 60KHz - 70KHz and like 40 FPS in Flight Simulator, AMDGPU’s output for my monitor is 50KHz - 56KHz but like 60 - 70 FPS in Flight Simulator, although I can activate/deactivate Radeon or AMDGPU at GRUB start I have seen a way better performance in my hardware using AMDGPU over Vulkan, so that’s why Vulkan is not worth it for me at the moment.