[ltp] Dual-boot with Windows 10

[cr]

This is sort of a null report, but I said I would - I eventually
decided that Windows was causing too much complication and if I ever
need it on my new machine in the future I'll try a reinstall or a VM.
So I repartitioned the whole drive in UEFI with a 600M boot partition
and a couple of 40GB partitions for Linuxen and the rest for data.    

Thinkpad E575, AMD chipset, amdgpu driver, Debian 10 + LXDE.

Install went OK but then the screen/keyboard/mouseclicks started
freezing after a minute's use.   It did this with LXDE, Fxce, LXQt,
IceWM and Openbox. MATE didn't freeze but screen got diagonal 'tearing'
Gnome, Cinnamon and Enlightenment worked OK.    Yes I tried them all.
Looong story short, it seems to be a bug in the amdgpu driver, setting
the device options in the xorg.conf file to  TearFree = True   fixed it
in all cases.

Chris


On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 04:27:31 +1200
cr <cr at orcon.net.nz> wrote:

> Hi Joerg and James
> 
> Thank you both for your comments and suggestions.   I'll check them
> out over the next couple of days and report back.   (My brain has
> stopped right now, I should have gone to bed hours ago).
> 
> I'm in the ideal position to explore this because this is a 'new' (to
> me) refurbished laptop with a new install of Windows 10 on it, NO data
> of mine on it yet, so as long as I'm careful not to render it
> unbootable in some way I shouldn't have any disasters.   :)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Chris