Am Dienstag, den 24.11.2020, 10:42 -0500 schrieb Alex Deucher: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 3:53 AM Martin Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear mailing list, > > > > for my new job I got a just as new HP Probook X360 435 G7, > > featuring > > the AMD CPU/GPU I named above (Ryzen 5 4500U) - and I found no way > > so > > far to make it work in any Linux I could think of. I get either a > > low > > resolution (SVGA on older kernel or current 5.8 kernel with > > nomodeset > > option) or a black screen on boot on any distribution I tried so > > far > > with a recent kernel (which is Mint, Ubuntu Mate, Fedora, openSUSE, > > Manjaro, Debian, maybe one or two I forgot). > > > > First of all: A lot of troubleshooting happened here already, there > > you > > can also find a ton of log outputs: > > > > https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=334399 > > > > (Linux Mint is my preferred distribution pretty much since it came > > into > > existence.) > > > > Can you offer any way to make it work, any kind of help beyond what > > I > > already tried? Post #27 on that forum thread also contains an > > Xorg.0.log.old, which is one of the black screen boots of course. > > > > Please let me know if I can provide you any further information. > > Thank > > you. > > > > Does this system have an option in the sbios to enable pre-OS or UEFI > DMA protection or something like that? If so, can you try disabling > that? If not, please open a bug and attach your dmesg output and > xorg > log (if using X). > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues > > Alex
First of all: TYVM for your responses, time and effort, but I have to entirely stop at this point. Reason follows down a few lines. For the records: I did not find any DMA protection option. While I snooped around UEFI purely out of curiosity decided to let the integrated HW diagnostics do a quick run - with surprising results: Battery defect, charging circuitry defective too. Since it's not even two weeks old, I am returning this thing right away. If I do not get my money back I will probably report back after I get the repaired or a new device back, else I will just pick a different laptop. Considering a Thinkpad rn... Thanks again, TC Martin _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
