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[Rant]: RX 5700... a frustrating experience
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tuubi Apr 18, 2020
I haven't really followed this because my system works fine and I'm such a selfish bastard, but looking at what you've been discussing, these changes in Linux 5.6.5 and 5.5.18 seem like they could be interesting, possibly:
drm/amd/display: Check for null fclk voltage when parsing clock table
drm/amdgpu/powerplay: using the FCLK DPM table to set the MCLK
Tuxee Apr 18, 2020
Quoting: tuubiI haven't really followed this because my system works fine and I'm such a selfish bastard
Indeed. :)
Quoting: tuubibut looking at what you've been discussing, these changes in Linux 5.6.5 and 5.5.18 seem like they could be interesting, possibly:
drm/amd/display: Check for null fclk voltage when parsing clock table
drm/amdgpu/powerplay: using the FCLK DPM table to set the MCLK

Struck me, too. I've updated to 5.6.5 on my Ubuntu 20.04 - the last two boots went fine. I'll see. There are new BIOS files available, too though I'm a bit reluctant to give them a try.
Tuxee Apr 21, 2020
Just tried the live image of Manjaro 20.0rc2 with a kernel 5.6.5 (didn't check the Mesa details, but I assume 20.0.4) - gave me unbearable screen flickering (never seen that before) and a whole bunch of powerplay errors in the syslog. I'll try a proper install once I find enough time, but the live image was a letdown.
Avehicle7887 Apr 21, 2020
Quoting: TuxeeJust tried the live image of Manjaro 20.0rc2 with a kernel 5.6.5 (didn't check the Mesa details, but I assume 20.0.4) - gave me unbearable screen flickering (never seen that before) and a whole bunch of powerplay errors in the syslog. I'll try a proper install once I find enough time, but the live image was a letdown.

You might want to skip Kernel 5.6.5 altogether, it was released with an AMDGPU regression that prevents reboot/shutdown. The issue has been fixed in 5.6.6.

See here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66305
Tuxee Apr 21, 2020
Quoting: Avehicle7887
Quoting: TuxeeJust tried the live image of Manjaro 20.0rc2 with a kernel 5.6.5 (didn't check the Mesa details, but I assume 20.0.4) - gave me unbearable screen flickering (never seen that before) and a whole bunch of powerplay errors in the syslog. I'll try a proper install once I find enough time, but the live image was a letdown.

You might want to skip Kernel 5.6.5 altogether, it was released with an AMDGPU regression that prevents reboot/shutdown. The issue has been fixed in 5.6.6.

See here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66305

Well, mainline 5.6.5 has been working fine on my Ubuntu 20.04 during the limited time I spent with it. 5.6.6 has yet to arrive in the repos.
tuubi Apr 21, 2020
Quoting: Tuxee
Quoting: Avehicle7887
Quoting: TuxeeJust tried the live image of Manjaro 20.0rc2 with a kernel 5.6.5 (didn't check the Mesa details, but I assume 20.0.4) - gave me unbearable screen flickering (never seen that before) and a whole bunch of powerplay errors in the syslog. I'll try a proper install once I find enough time, but the live image was a letdown.

You might want to skip Kernel 5.6.5 altogether, it was released with an AMDGPU regression that prevents reboot/shutdown. The issue has been fixed in 5.6.6.

See here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66305

Well, mainline 5.6.5 has been working fine on my Ubuntu 20.04 during the limited time I spent with it. 5.6.6 has yet to arrive in the repos.
It's in the repos now, but I didn't have any trouble with 5.6.5 either. Must be specific hardware only. But 5.6.6 does include another powerplay fix, so might be worth it to you in any case.
Trias Apr 25, 2020
Quoting: Avehicle7887I don't know if this might help but I just noticed the AMD firmwares have been updated in the linux-firmware git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/

By the way, is it possible to revert changes from this git and go back to previous linux-firmware?
I installed it (sudo cp -va amdgpu/ /lib/firmware/ and sudo update-initramfs -u, according to this article ) on my Linux Mint 19.3 and now I am getting a lot of warnings "Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/ ... for module amdgpu" every time something is using update-initramfs (e. g. every time I am installing new kernel).

Spoiler, click me

sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-5.6.7-050607.
(Reading database ... 557328 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack linux-headers-5.6.7-050607_5.6.7-050607.202004230933_all.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-5.6.7-050607 (5.6.7-050607.202004230933) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-5.6.7-050607-generic.
Preparing to unpack linux-headers-5.6.7-050607-generic_5.6.7-050607.202004230933_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-5.6.7-050607-generic (5.6.7-050607.202004230933) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-unsigned-5.6.7-050607-generic.
Preparing to unpack linux-image-unsigned-5.6.7-050607-generic_5.6.7-050607.202004230933_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-image-unsigned-5.6.7-050607-generic (5.6.7-050607.202004230933) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-modules-5.6.7-050607-generic.
Preparing to unpack linux-modules-5.6.7-050607-generic_5.6.7-050607.202004230933_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-modules-5.6.7-050607-generic (5.6.7-050607.202004230933) ...
Setting up linux-headers-5.6.7-050607 (5.6.7-050607.202004230933) ...
Setting up linux-headers-5.6.7-050607-generic (5.6.7-050607.202004230933) ...
/etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms:
* dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 5.6.7-050607-generic
...done.
Setting up linux-modules-5.6.7-050607-generic (5.6.7-050607.202004230933) ...
Setting up linux-image-unsigned-5.6.7-050607-generic (5.6.7-050607.202004230933) ...
I: /vmlinuz.old is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-96-generic
I: /initrd.img.old is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-96-generic
I: /vmlinuz is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-5.6.7-050607-generic
I: /initrd.img is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-5.6.7-050607-generic
Processing triggers for linux-image-unsigned-5.6.7-050607-generic (5.6.7-050607.202004230933) ...
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms:
* dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 5.6.7-050607-generic
...done.
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.6.7-050607-generic
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_gpu_info.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_gpu_info.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_ta.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_asd.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_sos.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_ta.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_asd.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_sos.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi14_ta.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/vega20_ta.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_rlc.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_mec2.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_mec.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_rlc.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_mec2.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_mec.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_me.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_pfp.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_ce.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_sdma.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_sdma1.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_sdma.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi10_mes.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_vcn.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_vcn.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_smc.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_smc.bin for module amdgpu
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub:
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/50_linuxmint.cfg'
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/60_mint-theme.cfg'
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found theme: /boot/grub/themes/linuxmint/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.6.7-050607-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.6.7-050607-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.6.0-050600rc7-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.6.0-050600rc7-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.5.11-050511-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.5.11-050511-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.5.9-050509-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.5.9-050509-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.27-050427-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.4.27-050427-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-42-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-42-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.0.0-32-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.0.0-32-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-96-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-96-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-20-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-20-generic
Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration
done

Avehicle7887 Apr 25, 2020
Quoting: Trias
Quoting: Avehicle7887I don't know if this might help but I just noticed the AMD firmwares have been updated in the linux-firmware git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/

By the way, is it possible to revert changes from this git and go back to previous linux-firmware?
I installed it (sudo cp -va amdgpu/ /lib/firmware/ and sudo update-initramfs -u, according to this article ) on my Linux Mint 19.3 and now I am getting a lot of warnings "Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/ ... for module amdgpu" every time something is using update-initramfs (e. g. every time I am installing new kernel).

That command seems ok, to be safe it's probably better to open up a gui as sudo and copy paste all the amdgpu firmware in /lib/firmware/amdgpu

The errors you're getting in terminal indicate that those files are not being found.
tuubi Apr 25, 2020
Quoting: Avehicle7887
Quoting: Trias
Quoting: Avehicle7887I don't know if this might help but I just noticed the AMD firmwares have been updated in the linux-firmware git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/

By the way, is it possible to revert changes from this git and go back to previous linux-firmware?
I installed it (sudo cp -va amdgpu/ /lib/firmware/ and sudo update-initramfs -u, according to this article ) on my Linux Mint 19.3 and now I am getting a lot of warnings "Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/ ... for module amdgpu" every time something is using update-initramfs (e. g. every time I am installing new kernel).

That command seems ok, to be safe it's probably better to open up a gui as sudo and copy paste all the amdgpu firmware in /lib/firmware/amdgpu

The errors you're getting in terminal indicate that those files are not being found.
You'll get those warnings even with the default firmware package if you install a recent kernel. They're harmless as long as you're not missing firmware required by your own hardware.
Trias Apr 25, 2020
Quoting: Avehicle7887That command seems ok, to be safe it's probably better to open up a gui as sudo and copy paste all the amdgpu firmware in /lib/firmware/amdgpu

The errors you're getting in terminal indicate that those files are not being found.

I checked both linux-firmware-20200316 from git and linux-firmware_1.186 from ubuntu and I don't see arcturus and navi12 files that I miss in amdgpu folders. So, nothing to copy...

Quoting: tuubiYou'll get those warnings even with the default firmware package if you install a recent kernel. They're harmless as long as you're not missing firmware required by your own hardware.

There are no major problems, so I think it's fine. And if it's about kernel, not firmware itself, I think I just leave it like this. Thanks.
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