Avon Robertson [avo...@xtra.co.nz] wrote: > > Greetings Chris and misc@, > > As suggested above by Chris? > 1. Downloaded radeondrm-firmware-20181218.tgz to ~/download/. > 2. # rm -fr /etc/firmware/amdgpu/* > 3. # tar -C /etc -xzvf ~/download/radeondrm-firmware-20181218.tgz > > The machine has been running without freezing for almost 24 hours, > so the radeon firmware may be a permanent fix. If the freezes occur > again I will send another email to this thread. > > Is there some way to prevent the amdgpu firmware being reinstalled and > or updated, during the reboot following a snapshot upgrade procedure?
You might just have to carefully dance around upgrades and re-install the old firmware yourself until the radeondrm-firware is updated again. Since it appears like this could be a bug with the newer firmware, it's possible it could be improved with the newer firmware. Alternately, it could be improved in other ways. If this is a common problem on these particular cards, and we know the older firmware no longer exhibits the problem, maybe firmware for this particular generation of card should be reverted. Chris
