Comment 7 for bug 1577074

I have the broadcom wireless which is the bane of my existence. Linux Mint
17.3 is having no issues. So far it is certain versions of radeon and the
amdgpu of 4.3-4.5. It is good to know that it seems to be fixed. Hopefully
the fixes will be backported into the LTS kernel. Forgot to mention this
problem is happening on Win10.
On May 9, 2016 7:25 PM, "nukedathlonman" <email address hidden> wrote:

> I was using the closed fglrx (a.k.a. Crimson 15.12) on Kubuntu 15.10
> (the latest updates from the regular repository - not the ones form the
> various PPA's) and that worked fine for me. For 16.04 Wily, the kernel
> packages from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-
> ppa/mainline/v4.6-rc6-wily have newer open source AMDgpu kernel drivers
> and those seem to work fine on the A10-8700P. Give that Kernel (or the
> newer RC7 one) a shot.
>
> Just a note for Jakedp (it's another unrelated bug and really doesn't
> apply to this bug - so this can be ignored so far as the AMDgpu bug
> report) - If we have the same laptop (and I believe we do), you'll also
> have the same Realtek RTL8723BE Wireless adapter - there's another bug
> that might affect you regarding that driver's antenna selection... The
> fix is projected to be included in the Kernel 4.7 by the developer. I
> was hoping it might have got backported into the 4.6 release candidates
> - but it hasn't.
>
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> Title:
> AMDGPU driver problems on "Carrizo" APU
>
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Summery: I'm having a hard time tracing this down. I updated to
> Kubuntu 16.04 (from Kubuntu 15.10 - that was using the Linux Crimson
> 15.12 driver) a couple days ago on my notebook (HP Pavilion, A10-8700P
> APU), and ever since I've been having random black screens. I started
> debugging the driver, then thought it might be a DPMS issue (it's not
> - I have DPMS fully disabled currently), and now I'm back to debugging
> the driver. I don't have any remnants of the former closed Crimson
> display driver and never had an xorg.conf file (I made a small one
> that I'm using at the moment consisting of only a server layout to
> ensure screen savers, DPMS, etc are all off). The Black screen can
> happen any time from the login screen until hours later. I can ssh
> into the system to shut it down. And just discovered that if I unplug
> the system from it's power brick, I can close the lid - the system
> will goto sleep. When I flip the screen back up, the system wakes up
> and the screen works again for 1-2 minutes. I don't see any errors in
> the log files (well, outside some nasty looking ACAPI errors in
> dmesg).
>
> Steps to reproduce: boot system and use normally or simply leave
> system alone. Blank screen will happen any time after x comes up.
>
> Expected results: Screen doesn't blank unless a screen saver or power
> saver kicks in.
>
> System info: Purchased Dec 2015 (build date from BIOS - Aug 2015), HP
> Pavilion 15" notebook, AMD A10-8700P "Carrizo", 16GB RAM, 960GB SSD
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