Re: MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT

From: Henrik Morsing <henrik_at_morsing.cc>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 13:22:47 UTC
On Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 01:41:54PM +0200, Tomek CEDRO wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 11:28 AM Henrik Morsing <henrik@morsing.cc> wrote:
>> Good morning,
>> I installed 13.1 last year, on a PC with a Radeon 5500 card, and had X running fine. This setup broke and after trying to freshly install both 13.2 and 14.1 I cannot get graphics to work again. The system hangs hard if I try to load amdgpu or start X.
>> I have installed Navi14 and DRM-515 and loaded amdgpu on boot. I can't see what else I need to do and because it hangs so hard, I have no messages suggesting what is wrong.
>
>You need to rebuilld drm-510-kmod (for 13) or drm-515-kmod (for 14) by
>hand from the ports (you need /usr/src installed for that). Binary
>builds are done on different OS version and does not match your kernel
>version - they would either wont load with error or cause kernel
>panic. This is a known issue easy to fix.
>

OMG, I can't believe how easy that was. Runs like a charm on drm-515 and 14.1 now (what is Navi14?).

>I am on the 13.3 right now with hand built drm-510-kmod on RX580. Its
>working rock solid. But on 14.0 with drm-515-kmod my machine was
>unstable (known issue, frequent random panics due to
>incompatible/missing LinuxKPI interfaces).
>

I'll let you know if it crashes at any point.

Thanks,
Henrik Morsing