It doesn’t boot up at all with the 9070 after installing it …figured it would just work after I updated, but nope. It gets stuck on “initializing ramdisk…” and nothing happens, I waited 10minutes. I tried Garuda(a gaming version of Arch) and it booted without issue and that one was on an older Kernel than 6.13(6.12 or something and then I ran an update and it went to 6.13) …
I made a bootable USB of OpenMandriva which was on Kernel 6.13, that never booted either, that one just gave me a blank screen…
The screenshot is what happens if I try a normal OpenMandriva boot and it will sit there until the end of time and not boot.
Downloaded a new ISO for the OS and created a new USB boot and it won’t even boot from that either…that one just gave me a blank screen…
I pick Garuda and it boots up instantly as well as Windows 11, the problem is I like OpenMandriva better than Garuda…lol but sadly…they don’t seem to know why it don’t work either when I ask on their forum, I cannot access the EXT4 drives from Garuda that were partitioned on OpenMandriva so I can’t test games on Garuda to see if they work…it throws an error and shows them as having no space when I try to add those drive through steam…
OpenMandriva MIGHT work if I use the on chip graphics, haven’t tried that yet, but I don’t it’s going to resolve the 9070 not working.
Any way to resolve that issue? the whole reason for me to try the USB boot option was try to to re-install the OS if thats what was needed(would rather not, I will loss all my stuff).
What GPU did you come from – is there any chance your initrd lacks the most-recent amdgpu firmware, and why aren’t you using the specific Linux 6.13.5 kernel (edit to correct from ‘6.23.5’) as per @wendell’s Radeon RX 9070 (& XT) Setup Notes for Linux ??
You mean 6.13.5? … because 6.14 is newer and should have worked. And the GPU I had before that was an RX6600.
I also mentioned Garuda Linux works fine and that didn’t even have an up to date kernel, and I was using the same RX6600 GPU, so whats the difference between that that would cause one to not work and the other to boot up just fine? … They both are using wayland also if that matters.
Thanks for the point about fat-fingered typo of 6.23 when I meant 6.13.
There’s updated amdgpu firmware in the linux-firmware repository, it’s likely that Mandriva doesn’t have up-to-date microcode to initialise the new card while pre-existing microcode can initialise the older card. Check the thread, and good luck.
Garuda was booting but it wasn’t showing the GPU and games wouldn’t play so that was fixed with re-installing a bunch of stuff(basically throwing things at the wall until something stuck…lol).
yay -S mesa-git (this didn't really do anything)
yay -S xf86-video-amdgpu-git
yay -S lib32-mesa-git (also really didn't do anything)
yay -S vulkan-radeon-git (this threw an error message about it missing from the git)
yay -S lib32-vulkan-radeon-git (this also didn't do anything)
yay -S linux-firmware-git
I restarted the PC, GPU still wasn’t working it just had some generic driver and missing other things like vulkan
So I did this:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/mesa-git.git
cd mesa-git
makepkg -si
That seems to have resolved the issue, the GPU shows up now, it detects the card as gfx1201 though whatever that means…but the clocks and power and memory all appear correct.
