Devuan Linux with Kernel 6.0 experiencing GPU freezing issues intermittently
Devuan Linux with Kernel 6.0 experiencing GPU freezing issues intermittently
Hello and joyful season to everyone! Today I received my Christmas presents, including the AMD/ATI FirePro W4100 I was looking for for my PC. My goal is to enable PCIe Passthrough with a Windows 11 VM so I can run some native non-Linux games on my 6900XT while using the W4100 to handle the rest of my side monitors. So far, I've faced minimal problems—after installing the GPU into the remaining slot on my MOBO, Linux recognized it instantly and started working without issues. My desktop environment (KDE Plasma 5.26.4) and layout remain unchanged, and the monitors are maintaining their 60Hz refresh rates perfectly. The only hiccup I've encountered is a brief freeze of the entire system minus the mouse cursor after booting up, lasting about 30 seconds. It looks like my desktop environment might be crashing, possibly due to a driver issue. I noticed yesterday an update to the firmware for the AMD graphics package, so it could be related. Overall, this isn’t a major concern—I’ve already tried Cyberpunk 2077 at full settings and Minecraft with ray tracing, and both ran smoothly without frame drops or crashes, just freezing after login. Below is the neofetch output right after turning on the new GPU. Any advice or assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you and have a wonderful holiday season!
It might be that interrupts are being triggered by the GPUs until a timeout occurs; identifying the cause is challenging. If GPU involvement is suspected, run dmesg | grep gpu to view recent GPU-related kernel messages after the last reboot.
I get: dmesg: read kernel buffer failed: Operation not permitted That's all I got, which is weird, was kind of expecting more. But I'll do some digging on this, the only reason I asked here was to get a start on something vague that I can't seem to find other help for. Thank you, I really appreciate it. EDIT: Oh wait nevermind, apparently DMESG now requires root, ran that and got the following: [ 3.428089] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 524288, num gpu pages 524288 [ 3.465008] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c00 [ 3.465009] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 1 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c04 [ 3.465010] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 2 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c08 [ 3.465011] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 3 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c0c [ 3.465011] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 4 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c10 [ 3.465428] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 5 use gpu addr 0x0000000000075a18 [ 3.485490] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 6 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c18 [ 3.485492] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 7 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c1c [ 4.025296] [drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled. [ 4.025308] amdgpu: vga_switcheroo: detected switching method \_SB_.PCI0.GPP8.SWUS.SWDS.VGA_.ATPX handle [ 4.028330] amdgpu: Ignoring ACPI CRAT on non-APU system [ 4.028332] amdgpu: Virtual CRAT table created for CPU [ 4.028338] amdgpu: Topology: Add CPU node [ 6.780234] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console [ 6.780259] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007) [ 6.781914] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: Fetched VBIOS from VFCT [ 6.781915] amdgpu: ATOM BIOS: 113-V395TRIO-4OC [ 6.781925] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) feature disabled as experimental (default) [ 6.781950] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: MEM ECC is not presented. [ 6.781950] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: SRAM ECC is not presented. [ 6.781966] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: VRAM: 16368M 0x0000008000000000 - 0x00000083FEFFFFFF (16368M used) [ 6.781967] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: GART: 512M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x000000001FFFFFFF [ 6.781968] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: AGP: 267894784M 0x0000008400000000 - 0x0000FFFFFFFFFFFF [ 6.782002] [drm] amdgpu: 16368M of VRAM memory ready [ 6.782003] [drm] amdgpu: 64362M of GTT memory ready. [ 6.782011] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072 [ 6.790521] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_sos.bin [ 6.790831] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_ta.bin [ 6.790835] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: PSP runtime database doesn't exist [ 6.790837] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: PSP runtime database doesn't exist [ 8.833214] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_smc.bin [ 8.833221] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: STB initialized to 2048 entries [ 8.833506] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_dmcub.bin [ 8.833716] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_pfp.bin [ 8.833994] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_me.bin [ 8.834177] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_ce.bin [ 8.834334] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_rlc.bin [ 8.834602] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_mec.bin [ 8.834841] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_mec2.bin [ 8.835275] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_sdma.bin [ 8.835673] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_vcn.bin [ 8.835682] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: Will use PSP to load VCN firmware [ 9.046864] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: SECUREDISPLAY: securedisplay ta ucode is not available [ 9.046882] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: smu driver if version = 0x00000040, smu fw if version = 0x00000041, smu fw program = 0, version = 0x003a5600 (58.86.0) [ 9.046885] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: SMU driver if version not matched [ 9.046912] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: use vbios provided pptable [ 9.120974] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: SMU is initialized successfully! [ 9.125165] snd_hda_intel 0000:0e:00.1: bound 0000:0e:00.0 (ops amdgpu_dm_audio_component_bind_ops [amdgpu]) [ 9.406700] kfd kfd: amdgpu: Allocated 3969056 bytes on gart [ 9.406816] amdgpu: sdma_bitmap: ffff [ 9.406877] amdgpu: SRAT table not found [ 9.406878] amdgpu: Virtual CRAT table created for GPU [ 9.407021] amdgpu: Topology: Add dGPU node [0x73bf:0x1002] [ 9.407022] kfd kfd: amdgpu: added device 1002:73bf [ 9.407044] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: SE 4, SH per SE 2, CU per SH 10, active_cu_number 80 [ 9.407088] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring gfx_0.0.0 uses VM inv eng 0 on hub 0 [ 9.407089] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.0.0 uses VM inv eng 1 on hub 0 [ 9.407090] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.1.0 uses VM inv eng 4 on hub 0 [ 9.407090] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.2.0 uses VM inv eng 5 on hub 0 [ 9.407091] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.3.0 uses VM inv eng 6 on hub 0 [ 9.407091] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.0.1 uses VM inv eng 7 on hub 0 [ 9.407092] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.1.1 uses VM inv eng 8 on hub 0 [ 9.407092] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.2.1 uses VM inv eng 9 on hub 0 [ 9.407093] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: rin [ 3.428089] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 524288, num gpu pages 524288 [ 3.465008] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c00 [ 3.465009] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 1 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c04 [ 3.465010] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 2 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c08 [ 3.465011] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 3 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c0c [ 3.465011] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 4 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c10 [ 3.465428] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 5 use gpu addr 0x0000000000075a18 [ 3.485490] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 6 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c18 [ 3.485492] radeon 0000:05:00.0: fence driver on ring 7 use gpu addr 0x0000000080000c1c [ 4.025296] [drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled. [ 4.025308] amdgpu: vga_switcheroo: detected switching method \_SB_.PCI0.GPP8.SWUS.SWDS.VGA_.ATPX handle [ 4.028330] amdgpu: Ignoring ACPI CRAT on non-APU system [ 4.028332] amdgpu: Virtual CRAT table created for CPU [ 4.028338] amdgpu: Topology: Add CPU node [ 6.780234] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console [ 6.780259] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007) [ 6.781914] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: Fetched VBIOS from VFCT [ 6.781915] amdgpu: ATOM BIOS: 113-V395TRIO-4OC [ 6.781925] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) feature disabled as experimental (default) [ 6.781950] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: MEM ECC is not presented. [ 6.781950] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: SRAM ECC is not presented. [ 6.781966] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: VRAM: 16368M 0x0000008000000000 - 0x00000083FEFFFFFF (16368M used) [ 6.781967] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: GART: 512M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x000000001FFFFFFF [ 6.781968] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: AGP: 267894784M 0x0000008400000000 - 0x0000FFFFFFFFFFFF [ 6.782002] [drm] amdgpu: 16368M of VRAM memory ready [ 6.782003] [drm] amdgpu: 64362M of GTT memory ready. [ 6.782011] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072 [ 6.790521] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_sos.bin [ 6.790831] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_ta.bin [ 6.790835] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: PSP runtime database doesn't exist [ 6.790837] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: PSP runtime database doesn't exist [ 8.833214] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_smc.bin [ 8.833221] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: STB initialized to 2048 entries [ 8.833506] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_dmcub.bin [ 8.833716] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_pfp.bin [ 8.833994] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_me.bin [ 8.834177] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_ce.bin [ 8.834334] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_rlc.bin [ 8.834602] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_mec.bin [ 8.834841] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_mec2.bin [ 8.835275] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_sdma.bin [ 8.835673] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_vcn.bin [ 8.835682] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: Will use PSP to load VCN firmware [ 9.046864] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: SECUREDISPLAY: securedisplay ta ucode is not available [ 9.046882] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: smu driver if version = 0x00000040, smu fw if version = 0x00000041, smu fw program = 0, version = 0x003a5600 (58.86.0) [ 9.046885] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: SMU driver if version not matched [ 9.046912] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: use vbios provided pptable [ 9.120974] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: SMU is initialized successfully! [ 9.125165] snd_hda_intel 0000:0e:00.1: bound 0000:0e:00.0 (ops amdgpu_dm_audio_component_bind_ops [amdgpu]) [ 9.406700] kfd kfd: amdgpu: Allocated 3969056 bytes on gart [ 9.406816] amdgpu: sdma_bitmap: ffff [ 9.406877] amdgpu: SRAT table not found [ 9.406878] amdgpu: Virtual CRAT table created for GPU [ 9.407021] amdgpu: Topology: Add dGPU node [0x73bf:0x1002] [ 9.407022] kfd kfd: amdgpu: added device 1002:73bf [ 9.407044] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: SE 4, SH per SE 2, CU per SH 10, active_cu_number 80 [ 9.407088] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring gfx_0.0.0 uses VM inv eng 0 on hub 0 [ 9.407089] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.0.0 uses VM inv eng 1 on hub 0 [ 9.407090] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.1.0 uses VM inv eng 4 on hub 0 [ 9.407090] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.2.0 uses VM inv eng 5 on hub 0 [ 9.407091] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.3.0 uses VM inv eng 6 on hub 0 [ 9.407091] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.0.1 uses VM inv eng 7 on hub 0 [ 9.407092] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.1.1 uses VM inv eng 8 on hub 0 [ 9.407092] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.2.1 uses VM inv eng 9 on hub 0 [ 9.407093] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring comp_1.3.1 uses VM inv eng 10 on hub 0 [ 9.407093] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring kiq_2.1.0 uses VM inv eng 11 on hub 0 [ 9.407094] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring sdma0 uses VM inv eng 12 on hub 0 [ 9.407094] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring sdma1 uses VM inv eng 13 on hub 0 [ 9.407095] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring sdma2 uses VM inv eng 14 on hub 0 [ 9.407095] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring sdma3 uses VM inv eng 15 on hub 0 [ 9.407096] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_dec_0 uses VM inv eng 0 on hub 1 [ 9.407096] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_enc_0.0 uses VM inv eng 1 on hub 1 [ 9.407097] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_enc_0.1 uses VM inv eng 4 on hub 1 [ 9.407097] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_dec_1 uses VM inv eng 5 on hub 1 [ 9.407098] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_enc_1.0 uses VM inv eng 6 on hub 1 [ 9.407098] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_enc_1.1 uses VM inv eng 7 on hub 1 [ 9.407098] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring jpeg_dec uses VM inv eng 8 on hub 1 [ 9.408287] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: Using BACO for runtime pm [ 9.408498] [drm] Initialized amdgpu 3.48.0 20150101 for 0000:0e:00.0 on minor 1 [ 9.417430] fbcon: amdgpudrmfb (fb1) is primary device [ 10.682045] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: [drm] fb1: amdgpudrmfb frame buffer device [ 15.559309] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none g comp_1.3.1 uses VM inv eng 10 on hub 0 [ 9.407093] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring kiq_2.1.0 uses VM inv eng 11 on hub 0 [ 9.407094] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring sdma0 uses VM inv eng 12 on hub 0 [ 9.407094] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring sdma1 uses VM inv eng 13 on hub 0 [ 9.407095] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring sdma2 uses VM inv eng 14 on hub 0 [ 9.407095] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring sdma3 uses VM inv eng 15 on hub 0 [ 9.407096] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_dec_0 uses VM inv eng 0 on hub 1 [ 9.407096] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_enc_0.0 uses VM inv eng 1 on hub 1 [ 9.407097] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_enc_0.1 uses VM inv eng 4 on hub 1 [ 9.407097] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_dec_1 uses VM inv eng 5 on hub 1 [ 9.407098] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_enc_1.0 uses VM inv eng 6 on hub 1 [ 9.407098] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring vcn_enc_1.1 uses VM inv eng 7 on hub 1 [ 9.407098] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: ring jpeg_dec uses VM inv eng 8 on hub 1 [ 9.408287] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: amdgpu: Using BACO for runtime pm [ 9.408498] [drm] Initialized amdgpu 3.48.0 20150101 for 0000:0e:00.0 on minor 1 [ 9.417430] fbcon: amdgpudrmfb (fb1) is primary device [ 10.682045] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: [drm] fb1: amdgpudrmfb frame buffer device [ 15.559309] amdgpu 0000:0e:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none Edited December 25, 2022 by Bingus_Bongus DMESG now requires root.
Uncertain about the exact situation, but it looks like the issue resolved on its own. Every time I restart my system—especially during GPU passthrough setup with vfio-pci—it no longer occurs. I’m not sure what exactly changed, but I’m fine. This seems to happen repeatedly in Linux, where problems often disappear by themselves. Your guidance provided a helpful starting point, so I appreciate your support. Thanks!