Issues with automatically mounting drives at startup via systemd are no longer resolved by keyboard shortcuts.
Issues with automatically mounting drives at startup via systemd are no longer resolved by keyboard shortcuts.
The open source AMD driver is integrated into the kernel and uses the Mesa stack. The only required installation is amdgpu-pro, the proprietary driver rarely used outside specialized tools like Blender. Typically, developers just need the openCL implementation from the pro stack, available as a standalone package for Arch-based distros at the provided link. If you're using Plasma, please verify your environment—whether you're on Xorg or Wayland. From your posts, it looks like you have an R9 280; you should install sudo pacman -S vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon. If you attempted to install amdgpu-pro, I recommend removing it.
Hello once more and thank you for your responses. XAcid9, I think I have all the necessary drivers installed, though I’m not able to pick AMD GPU from the list. Nayr438, I’m on the R9 290, but I also own a 280 and a 270x—someone has shared some past experiences about them. I’m pretty sure everything is set up correctly, but it doesn’t automatically switch when it should. Probably because of the final tweaks. I’m not sure what’s wrong exactly. The only problems I noticed were with the initramfs command (not sure what it does) and the modconf part—trying it with or without a “#” still caused a black screen. I followed the wiki instructions carefully, and before the reboot everything worked fine.
Now I’m stuck. Sometimes I enter nomodeset through tty3 and it works, but I’m not sure how to proceed. I’m confused about navigation and what I should do next. I’m still learning.
At this point I have the same drivers again, and I believe I installed Vulkan properly. This time I’m using a Mesa version from Valve that supports my card, which has made it harder to get things right—so many failed attempts. But with the original drivers I also got the same issue.
With OEM drivers, the problem seems to disappear after rebooting, so it’s likely related to those drivers. I’m checking the lspci output for any VGA/3D info, but it doesn’t show anything relevant.
Recently, whenever I install the AMD GPU drivers and reboot, they just vanish. That suggests something about those drivers is the issue. Could be Xorg or Wayland? It lists X11 in sysinfo, so I’m assuming Xorg. I tried xrender and other OpenGL options, but nothing changed.
But this might surprise you: after installing the AMD GPU drivers, they just disappear again. Maybe it’s tied to the driver version or how it’s configured. Please let me know what you think—I’d appreciate any advice on getting it to work smoothly.
I noticed mesa-git was installed, but it might cause issues. For a more stable build, consider adding the repo from https://aur.chaotic.cx/ and install the necessary packages with pacman. Also, remove amdgpu-pro if you need a more upstream setup. The Arch documentation indicates amdgpu is unsupported on certain cards like GCN1 and GCN2. Double-check the card model—your 290 appears to be Sea Islands, so enable the required modules in nano as shown. Blacklist radeon in modprobe.d without changing defaults.