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  • Mageia and RX 6500XT

    From red floyd@2:250/1 to All on Sat Jan 7 22:11:49 2023
    Hi everyone,

    So, I've got a new graphics card (Radeon RX 6500XT), and I'm trying to
    install Mageia 8. Unfortunately, it seems this card is not supported --
    I have to use fbdev. If I try amdgpu I just get a black screen on boot.

    A quick search seems to indicate that this card isn't supported until
    kernel 5.15, but when I booted into text mode and did an urpmi update,
    I got 5.15, but it still doesn't like the video card.

    Anyone got any suggestions? I really don't want to run Cauldron
    if I can avoid it, especially since it's just at alpha-1 state.

    Thanks,

    red floyd

    Gigabyte Aorus Pro
    Ryzen 5 5600X
    64GB DDR4
    ASRock RX 6500XT



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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jan 8 00:30:11 2023
    On Sat, 07 Jan 2023 17:11:49 -0500, red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> wrote:

    Hi everyone,

    So, I've got a new graphics card (Radeon RX 6500XT), and I'm trying to install Mageia 8. Unfortunately, it seems this card is not supported --
    I have to use fbdev. If I try amdgpu I just get a black screen on boot.

    A quick search seems to indicate that this card isn't supported until
    kernel 5.15, but when I booted into text mode and did an urpmi update,
    I got 5.15, but it still doesn't like the video card.

    Anyone got any suggestions? I really don't want to run Cauldron
    if I can avoid it, especially since it's just at alpha-1 state.

    Thanks,

    red floyd

    Gigabyte Aorus Pro
    Ryzen 5 5600X
    64GB DDR4
    ASRock RX 6500XT

    I find no mention of "6500XT" in any of the Mageia mailing lists I'm subscribed to, so it's unlikely anyone else using Mageia has one.

    Probably best to open a bug report and as well as the above info include the output (as root) of "lspcidrake -v|grep Card".

    The bug report will get assigned to the kernel and drivers team, who may be able
    to find a workaround using kernel options, etc.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jan 8 12:13:12 2023
    On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 14:11:49 -0800, red floyd wrote:
    Hi everyone,

    So, I've got a new graphics card (Radeon RX 6500XT), and I'm trying to install Mageia 8. Unfortunately, it seems this card is not supported --
    I have to use fbdev. If I try amdgpu I just get a black screen on boot.

    A quick search seems to indicate that this card isn't supported until
    kernel 5.15, but when I booted into text mode and did an urpmi update,
    I got 5.15,

    Hope it was
    $ uname -r
    5.15.82-desktop-1.mga8
    If you might supply that info if you do open a bug report.


    but it still doesn't like the video card.

    Anyone got any suggestions? I really don't want to run Cauldron
    if I can avoid it, especially since it's just at alpha-1 state.


    Well technically it is beta.

    I have been running Cauldron for about two weeks, and nothing major
    found broken for me.

    I suggest maybe doing a multi-boot install if you have the extra space
    and do a clean install. That way you can switch between Cauldron and Mageia 8.

    Just do no share /home between installs.



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  • From red floyd@2:250/1 to All on Tue Feb 7 23:25:51 2023
    On 1/8/2023 4:13 AM, Bit Twister wrote:
    On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 14:11:49 -0800, red floyd wrote:
    Hi everyone,

    So, I've got a new graphics card (Radeon RX 6500XT), and I'm trying to
    install Mageia 8. Unfortunately, it seems this card is not supported --
    I have to use fbdev. If I try amdgpu I just get a black screen on boot.

    A quick search seems to indicate that this card isn't supported until
    kernel 5.15, but when I booted into text mode and did an urpmi update,
    I got 5.15,

    Hope it was
    $ uname -r
    5.15.82-desktop-1.mga8
    If you might supply that info if you do open a bug report.


    but it still doesn't like the video card.

    Anyone got any suggestions? I really don't want to run Cauldron
    if I can avoid it, especially since it's just at alpha-1 state.


    Well technically it is beta.

    I have been running Cauldron for about two weeks, and nothing major
    found broken for me.

    I suggest maybe doing a multi-boot install if you have the extra space
    and do a clean install. That way you can switch between Cauldron and Mageia 8.

    Just do no share /home between installs.


    Using nomodeset fixed some of the issues, but I was getting IPTables
    issues at boot time as well (may be the Ethernet card -- Realtek 2.5Gb controller).

    Decided to try Mageia 9 (whatever the latest alpha/beta/rc is) and it
    works.



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