Freebsd crashing/reboots thinkpad E14 AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with Radeon Graphics

johnjohn said:
But big tech would charge us the price of a house for that much RAM...
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128 GB of DDR4 on Amazon is about $500 USD... while a house is typically $500,000... A factor of 1000 difference.

johnjohn said:
In every version of Windows up to 10, my system eventually crashes after an hour of copying files. I swear that they are using memory to log all of the files and copy the files by placing them into memory. The system starts losing graphics after an hour (buttons in Explorer and window borders/scrollbars). I have had this happen in every version of Windows up to 10 and i do not use 11.
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Looks like you had crappy media or a crappy connection. I'd know, I myself have spent hours copying files under Win10, and later, under win11. Under win10, I'd crap out if a file was more than 10 GB at once. Not under win11. Maybe you just need PCIe4 SSDs, those go for about $50 per TB.
 
Ok, fyi 3 days ago i decided to disable Accel in X config. And now the laptop has been up and running for 3 days already. Before this, it would crash between a couple hours and 2 days (but the graphics/accel were working fine before the crashes). Lets see how many days it will continue to work without a crash

I have amdgpu loaded and used the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Code: 
Section "Device"
  Identifier "Card0"
  Option "Accel" "0"
EndSection

Oh yes, and infinite tabs "opened".. so the crashes seem to be coming from the accel bits so far.

For the record, the processor GPU is:

vendor = 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
device = 'Rembrandt [Radeon 680M]'

And im on 14.3-STABLE built with the steps mentioned in previous replies
 
5 days without a crash. Disabling Accel really made the difference.

So that means something is wrong the Accel in the amdgpu driver. It works "perfectly" for 2 days at most and then crashes. Maybe some memory leak or something
 
After 10 days without a crash and Xorg Accel disabled, i have updated to 14.3-RELEASE and installed drm-61-kmod and Accel enabled.

Lets see how this goes...
 
And it froze again... after 1day and some hours.

Erichans I removed drm-61-kmod and installed xf86-video-amdgpu but then xorg does not start.

I guess i will have to go back to drm-kmods and disable Accel in Xorg
 
astyle what exactly do you meant "You do need both for Xorg to function." ? You mean i should use drm-61-kmod plus xf86-video-amdgpu ? Ok, i can try that...
But xorg was working fine (for 1 day before it froze) with just drm-61-kmod
 
besta said:
astyle what exactly do you meant "You do need both for Xorg to function." ? You mean i should use drm-61-kmod plus xf86-video-amdgpu ? Ok, i can try that...
But xorg was working fine (for 1 day before it froze) with just drm-61-kmod
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Well, you do need, as a minimum, drm-61-kmod for Xorg to even load and work at all. For more fine-grained control (like video acceleration, iirc), that's where xf86-video-amdgpu comes in.
 
I have 3 Radeon systems that have been crashing or not working after upgrading / fresh install / of 14.3 I had to specify the driver version for each to fix the problem.
pkg install drm-61-kmod gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-*driver name*. This has fixed the issues for every system.

Intel and Nvidia systems have been unaffected.

EDIT: I do need to clarify that my Intel systems are iGPU. I do not have any Arc GPUs to test.
 
astyle said:
Well, you do need, as a minimum, drm-61-kmod for Xorg to even load and work at all. For more fine-grained control (like video acceleration, iirc), that's where xf86-video-amdgpu comes in.
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tried that yesterday, installed xf86-video-amdgpu alongside drm-61-kmod AND, enabled Xorg acceleration. today, after 1 day, the system froze again... just as a reminder, i have experience with intel/igpu with freebsd and never had any problems
 
LibreQuest said:
I have 3 Radeon systems that have been crashing or not working after upgrading / fresh install / of 14.3 I had to specify the driver version for each to fix the problem.
pkg install drm-61-kmod gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-*driver name*. This has fixed the issues for every system.

Intel and Nvidia systems have been unaffected.

EDIT: I do need to clarify that my Intel systems are iGPU. I do not have any Arc GPUs to test.
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My amd gpu that seems to be Rembrandt [Radeon 680M], loads amdgpu, works fine for a day or 2 days at most.. and then it freezes or reboots.. it used to reboot.. and now it freezes.
However if i disable Acceleration in xorg.conf, i was able to get 10 days uptime with the running system
 
besta said:
tried that yesterday, installed xf86-video-amdgpu alongside drm-61-kmod AND, enabled Xorg acceleration. today, after 1 day, the system froze again... just as a reminder, i have experience with intel/igpu with freebsd and never had any problems
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Kind of goes to show that you need to:
1. Install both xf86-video-amdgpu alongside drm-61-kmod.
2. Disable the acceleration... instead of enabling. Yes, it does take having both of the above installed.

This is why I take notes on what works and what doesn't on my hardware. Keeping track of that info (and how it applies to your hardware) is pretty important.
 
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