I’ve don’t it this time… Weird screen behaviour lead me to attempting to load a proprietary amd drivers. It didn’t work and I can’t boot the computer. I tried the recovery in the boot menu, that failed. I need to boot to a text prompt. “text” in the Linux line of the grub did squat. Any hints?

What did you do to get to this point? We’re missing context.

Load load the AMD proprietary graphics drivers. I’ve been trying to resolve an issue where the screen blacks out for no apparent reason. Now it boots but stops with a - at the top right of the screen. I can’t get a terminal to appear to fix the issue. I need to boot into a standard driver and not …

[PXL_20250323_045929011~2] My reading of random help says put “text” at the end of the Linux line to skip loading drivers and get a terminal. I tried “text” and “amdgpu.text=1” and removing all AMD stuff. I read of video=vesa as an option.

I’m guessing from your previous posts here: Lock screen crashes or freezes on KDE Rocky 9 - #6 by Yani and here: Warp Terminal How's had a go at it? you’ve been trying to use warp terminal and it’s AI to solve you problem and now it’s gone wrong? I would say you probably put way too much trust in t…

I knew the consequences of loading the AMD driver. I’m not blaming AI. It’s me breaking things to find where the “blackouts” are coming from. I have been able to F2 a terminal but not in a repeatable manner. Totally my call.

I would still attempt the rescue kernel, or removing as above. Once you’re booted, any packages you installed for the AMD stuff can then be removed.

There’s a lot of what the… A couple of things make it worse. The Logitech keyboard and the magic duel use f keys. Smarts in the monitor Tiny terminal font on UHD I can and can’t get a terminal. Might be code looping in error versus my patients. I’ve unlinked the repo. And removed the driver.

I can and can’t get a prompt. If I use rd.break I get the emergency prompt. Sometimes I can log out of that to a user prompt. What is the repository for the correct AMD files. It might be disabled. I’m not sure (see Idiocracy) which of the repos contain it.

[image] Yani: I tried “text” [image] Yani: rd.break gets me the emergency prompt. Use: systemd.unit=multi-user.target

Failed graphic drivers after install

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Yani March 23, 2025, 11:13pm 9

Oh I’ll be attempting a rescue.

rd.break gets me the emergency prompt.

Logout returned me to user mode.

After a reboot I can’t reproduce that.

Issue is connected to $DISPLAY

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