| Gargoyle | tomreyn: You are my hero!!! | 00:05 |
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| tomreyn | Gargoyle: ;-) | 00:05 |
| Gargoyle | All 3 screens running happy at 2560x1440! | 00:05 |
| tomreyn | which card is this? | 00:05 |
| Gargoyle | Radeon VII | 00:06 |
| tomreyn | cute | 00:06 |
| tomreyn | monster | 00:06 |
| Gargoyle | Kernel 5.0 was looking for *_te.bin which is not in that list you linked to. But 4.20.7 is happy! :-) | 00:06 |
| tomreyn | that's *_te.bin in addition to vega20_sos.bin or instead of it? | 00:08 |
| Gargoyle | Not sure, I only saw the te.bin filename in the dmesg error | 00:08 |
| Gargoyle | One other thing you might be able to help with. When I get an official kernel update, my EFI gets updated and it picks that one by default. But after manually installing 4.20.7, the EFI still defaults to 4.19. Is there something I can trigger to get it to do the same as if it was a normal kernel update. | 00:10 |
| Gargoyle | I'm not sure I want to remove the official kernel just yet. | 00:11 |
| tomreyn | it happens that there's ome delay until the latest firmwares become available. but most of the time agd5f releases it just in time. | 00:11 |
| tomreyn | Gargoyle: update-grub doesn't add it? | 00:12 |
| Gargoyle | I don't use grub. I've got rEFInd. | 00:12 |
| tomreyn | oh, i'm not familiar with that | 00:13 |
| Gargoyle | Maybe because the upgrade to 19.04 had helpfully re-installed grub for me, it's updating the wrong menu. | 00:13 |
| tomreyn | on an uefi system, grub installs its first stage on the efi, and that's all there is in term of linux by default. you can add more and change things using efibootmgr. when grub loads, the grub menu loads from /boot as in the past, and so are kernels and initrd | 00:16 |
| tomreyn | so *if you use grub* you need to make sure /boot/grub/grub.cfg contains all the kernels you may want to run (in case the "update-grub" command misses some) | 00:17 |
| tomreyn | so there is no wrong grub menu really | 00:18 |
| Gargoyle | rEFInd is similar, but it doesn't "need" the same config stuff. It's scans the HD's in your system for things it knows how to boot. So it just finds all the kernels in /boot automagically | 00:18 |
| Gargoyle | Just not sure what triggers it to pick a particular one by default. But I'll leave that for another day! | 00:18 |
| tomreyn | grub would also add all kernels it finds in /boot | 00:19 |
| tomreyn | plus some other kernels if those are found by os-prober | 00:19 |
| Gargoyle | but you have to run grub install ? | 00:19 |
| Gargoyle | or grub update? | 00:19 |
| tomreyn | grub-install does nothing but placing the grub stage 1 onto the esp | 00:19 |
| tomreyn | grub-update updates grub.cfg with kernels it finds | 00:20 |
| tomreyn | err update-grub i mean | 00:20 |
| tomreyn | "grub update" does not exist | 00:20 |
| Gargoyle | rEFInd does it automatically each boot | 00:21 |
| Gargoyle | It's saved me a few times when I "lost" my windows boot... or vice-versa | 00:21 |
| tomreyn | i see. update-grub is also triggered when kernel packages are installed or removed | 00:21 |
| Gargoyle | So I eventually made it my default boot loader in EFI and removed grub | 00:22 |
| Gargoyle | Anyway. Thanks for the help. Much appreciated that I finished the day with my new gfx card installed and working. :-) | 00:23 |
| tomreyn | :) enjoy it. | 00:23 |
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