[arch-general] Persistent black screen of death issues with radeon graphics

2014-11-26 Thread Robbie Smith
I am at a loss as to what the hell is going on with my laptop. It's a HP Pavillion with the dual AMD graphics (7520G + 7500M), and I will never again buy a laptop containing components from either manufacturer. More often than not when I boot, when the kernel tries to do modesetting the screen wil

Re: [arch-general] Persistent black screen of death issues with radeon graphics

2014-11-26 Thread LoneVVolf
On 26-11-14 12:00, Robbie Smith wrote: I am at a loss as to what the hell is going on with my laptop. It's a HP Pavillion with the dual AMD graphics (7520G + 7500M), and I will never again buy a laptop containing components from either manufacturer. More often than not when I boot, when the kern

Re: [arch-general] Persistent black screen of death issues with radeon graphics

2014-11-26 Thread Martti Kühne
I had a similar issue on my laptop on very rare occasions. Make sure it's not just a setting of 0 on your /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness... Otherwise you might have to set it on the kernel command line or in /etc/modprobe.*. Cheers! mar77i

Re: [arch-general] Persistent black screen of death issues with radeon graphics

2014-11-26 Thread Robbie Smith
On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 15:33 +0100, LoneVVolf wrote: > > On 26-11-14 12:00, Robbie Smith wrote: > > I am at a loss as to what the hell is going on with my laptop. It's > a HP > > Pavillion with the dual AMD graphics (7520G + 7500M), and I will > never > > again buy a laptop containing components