Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 11:05:43AM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 18:07:48 +0200
> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I got exactly the same result on my grandma’s 10-years-old laptop.  I
> > just found out it is using an old AMD GPU too (AMD RS780M).
> 
> :(
> 
> What does
> 
>   readlink /sys/class/drm/card0/subsystem
> 
> say after passing "nomodeset" to the kernel ?
> 
> Does it still say "drm" ?
> 
> 

There is no card0.  There is only ttm and version.

readlink /sys/class/drm/card0/subsystem

gives no output at all.

readlink /sys/class/drm/ttm/subsystem

gives

../../../../class/drm



> Other than that, it might help to update the system bios, but that's a shitty 
> workaround.
> 


That would not be an acceptable workaround IMO.

Thank you for all your work!