[ltp] Linux-Thinkpad Digest, Vol 44, Issue 1

[Axel Braun]

You may want to try a tested rolling release like Tumbleweed, it contains more Regent drivers 
Schöne Grüße
 Axel
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Written from cell phone - excuses for typos


>Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 19:17:09 +1200
>From: cr <cr at orcon.net.nz>
>To: linux-thinkpad at linux-thinkpad.org
>Subject: Re: [ltp] Dual-boot with Windows 10
>Message-ID: <20210508191709.2efe50f8 at Marga.badwolf>
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>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
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