On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor <mcp_rez...@hotmail.com > wrote:
> I have a Bonaire gpu, which has legacy support using the amdgpu kernel > module. I currently use the Radeon dri module with radeonsi mesa drivers > and am quite happy. But gentoo being gentoo I thought I'd give the amdgpu > a go for the fun of it. > > Tried a few variations and keep coming up with a black screen on boot and > it's hard locked. I'm using the same Firmware includes that the radeon > driver requires, and from reading it looks like that's fine with amdgpu, so > I'm not sure what else could be the issue. > > Has anyone here tried and had success with it? I've tried Kernels 4.2 > 4.2.4 4.3 and 4.3.2. So I believe I'm missing something simple and it's > not a kernel bug. > Did you consult the wiki article shown below when configuring your system to use admgpu? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Amdgpu