I’m a long time AMD user both my GPU and CPU. I have a powerful enough PSU and a b550m-plus mobo.
I’m looking to do gaming, light AI work, computer programming, running Docker server services.
I have a Radeon 6900xt, but it doesn’t work well with Linux anymore. amdgpu fails to load, and I can only boot by adding nomodeset to my boot entry.
With ArchInstall I even tried reformatting with xfs, ext4, btrfs, without encryption, with and without LVM, selecting both ATI OS drivers for all GPUs, and drivers for AMD gpus, with systemd-boot and grub.
Even Fedora on USB only boots with nomodeset.
Windows seems to boot fine.
I assume it may be a problem with system reading the drivers from the GPU.
I have onboard HDMI for graphics, but I’ve never got it working.
tbh, my 6900XT was too powerful anyways. I do game in 4K with my 55" TV on the highest settings, but it seems I was still barely using the GPUs full potential.
Funny enough, I seem to have had more problems with high end GPUs in the past than low end GPUs.
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Cold booting does the same effect. Sometimes I’m able to bootup the driver. But after a reboot, the same problem always recurs.
amdgpu fails to load
If you’re referring to the old “amdgpu pro” software, you probably don’t want to be using that. It isn’t necessary for the stuff you want to do, and I’m surprised to learn that it still exists at all — it’s still talked about as if it’s current on the arch wiki. Get rid of that, update the firmware package, run a recent kernel, and then figure out whatever specific thing you actually need for the AI stuff you’re trying to do such as rocm-related things.
Both Mesa and Amdgpu-Pro fail
I don’t know, but one possibility to consider is that running amdgpu-pro (or its non-pro counterpart) might’ve done something that stops mesa from working if you didn’t completely undo everything it did.
The problem started with Mesa… Amdgpu is having the same problem.
Have you ruled out the GPU itself is not physically defective? I’m rocking a 6700XT and gaming in 1080 like a champ. I’m lazy so I’m running Mint though.
Hang on…
Just because no one has asked it yet…
Are you only using a HDMI cable and have you not tried a display port cable?
FYI: The “HDMI Forum” didn’t want to allow open source implementations of HDMI 2.1. They wanted to charge people a fee for using it. This is why people use display port, it has no fee and it usually has newer feature support earlier.
I dont have a monitor with DP, but I could look into trying a friends monitor. I’ve only been using HDMI and HDMi 2.1
Replacing the GPU worked.
Intel Arc if you get one
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Funny enough, but sadly, Windows was the only one that booted normally.
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Might as well also try out Debian 12 and Ubuntu.
I have a 7600 and it works well with Debian 12. Also, my CPU doesn’t have an iGPU, so can be sure that’s how it is working.Though I am a Debian fan, I don’t think trying another distro will help too much.
While I am not a Debian fan and my system runs much smoother when using Arch, it shouldn’t hurt to try.
