EDIT: Removing nomodeset
from the grub config solved the problem!
Greetings!
I’ll just start with listing some of my hardware:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X (not overclocked)
Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix X570-F
Graphics card: XFX Speedster Merc 319 Radeon 6800 XT
RAM: G.Skill 32GB
PSU: Corsair 1200 watt
Drives: Corsair MP600 1TB x2
Soundcard: Creative Soundblaster ZxR
NIC: Asus XG-C100C
My system of choice is Fedora KDE spin.
Okay, so… I initially bought an nVidia RTX 2070 during summer, thinking the days of driver issues I experienced 15 years ago was a thing of the past. Long story short; the entire experience was janky and everywhere I read, people recommended AMD due to the excellent support.
Fast forward half a year and I bought a 6800 XT when it became available. Got it just before the weekend.
I downloaded the latest Fedora KDE ISO and swapped my hardware and performed a fresh install… or that is what I hoped to do.
The first problem was that the USB stick I prepared wouldn’t boot properly. It would hang at a certain point during boot. I ran over to the neighbor and got a DVD burned, same issue. After a bit of trial and error, I found that I had to select troubleshooting and basic graphics support for it to boot into the GUI.
After a frustrating install process, I were greeted with a really low resolution, distorted desktop environment. I found that the only available resolution was a 1024x768 at 76 hz, which doesn’t look great on a 16:9 32" 4K monitor…
I have tried to install the AMD drivers, but did not succeed. I chose the RHEL drivers as that would be the closest match for me. Ran into what looked like repository issues, and when I found a workaround for that, it failed again due to my system not being rl8 or something like that.
Searching around, the answer is for the most part “don’t bother, it is included in the kernel.” I can see I have xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu installed, which should be the included driver. However, it doesn’t seem to do anything useful due to how things look.
When I run lspci, I can see the graphics card in the list as VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT] (rev c1)
Somehow moving to AMD turned out to be a lot more broken experience than nVidia ever was for me. I’m sure there’s probably a fix for this, but I either haven’t found it in my searches, or it is beyond my knowledge.
Any help to get this working is greatly appreciated.