Bug#900087: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu: AMD RX 550 often locks up
On 2018-06-02 10:07-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
The propagation of kernel 4.16.12 from Sid to Buster has greatly
improved this situation, i.e., no lock ups so far (uptime approaching
3 days since I switched to 4.16.12 from 4.16.5) and may have
completely solved it. [...]
Well, further experience showed lockups occurred roughly as often for
4.16.12 as for 4.16.5. So currently I am only able to use this
computer in a reliable way using an X-terminal (an alternate computer
with a different X server that runs "X -query <name of this computer>"
to control and display remote desktop results that are running on this
computer).
Therefore I plan to wait for kernel 4.17.x (which apparently has many
graphics fixes for modern AMD cards such as the RX 550) to propagate
to Buster before I try this computer again with a local X server,
i.e., direct use rather than X-terminal use.
Alan
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