Linux, Lenovo, AMD Radeon

[Eero Volotinen]

I think is hardware has some problems with older kernels.

Eero

2016-02-27 9:31 GMT+02:00 Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>:

> Sad face :-(
>
> My new Lenovo E560, with AMD Radeon R7 M360 arrived yesterday. Today I
> went to install Ubuntu 14.04-02 on it, only to fall at the first hurdle.
>
> I get the main menu OK, select Install, and after a few seconds I see
> this:
>
> [drm:si_dpm_set_power_state] *ERROR* si_upload_sw_stat failed
>
> Lots of other people have seen this, it seems. It appears to relate to
> the AMD graphics, but all the solutions I can find involve already being
> booted into Linux.
>
> In desperation I systematically tried the various boot options available
> (noapnic etc), bit none of them made a difference. Adding vga=771 got it
> to boot into a GUI. The same message was output, but the boot didn't
> hang. It was very low resolution, the colours were bizarre, and while
> you could sort of tell there was some text there, nothing was legible
> except the mouse cursor. Not useful.
>
> I'm downloading 15.10 now, just in case that makes a difference, but
> otherwise I can see no remedy but to return the unit - if they'll take
> it back.
>
> Unless someone out there has a magic incantation?
>
> I'm starting to think I should have listened to Gene Heskett about
> AMD...
>
> Regards, K.
>
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