Pop Os 20.04 not booting after system upgrade

[GCandy77]

Hi Nayr438 & thanks for the DKMS explanation.  

 

I think what your saying is that if I decide to stick with PopOs, then it may be worth my while to go back to a older LTS version with a Kernel that uses DKMS in order to prevent future issues?  

 

I think that even tho my system is stable atm ... Im prob gonna jump ship to Manjaro n take a pop at it (no pun intended) as it looks a bit more stable than PopOs with my current HW setup + It would be great to get Vulkan/DXVK running for those 3 games I have to switch to windoze to play.

 

5 hours ago, Nayr438 said:

I am curios if Ubuntu is doing this as well. Really they are making it more complicated than it should be. 

I`d have to assume that they are as the fix I found was from the ask ubuntu page posted a month ago for the 20.04 LTS with a similar 5.8 Kernel ( Ive read Pop modifies the one ubuntu uses )

 

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1287904/amd-gpu-dkms-not-building-in-kernel-5-8-5-8-xanmod

[elsandosgrande]

13 hours ago, Nayr438 said:

This means PopOS! is favoring the problematic proprietary drivers over the open-source ones. This explains a lot of the problematic AMD posts I have seen lately, I am curios if Ubuntu is doing this as well. Really they are making it more complicated than it should be. Really the only thing AMDGPU-PRO offers a advantage in, is OpenCL support. If you decide to go Manjaro and need OpenCL Support, you can use this https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opencl-amd/

1. Ubuntu does not install the PRO drivers automatically in my experience, though I switched off of Ubuntu on my other laptop (long story, not really relevant) just before Cosmic Cuttlefish was released, so there is a non-zero chance that things may have changed. I'd really like to see what results @GCandy77 gets with a Groovy Gorilla LiveUSB.
2. Isn't ROCm another option?

[GCandy77]

On 12/5/2020 at 11:56 PM, elsandosgrande said:

1. Ubuntu does not install the PRO drivers automatically in my experience, though I switched off of Ubuntu on my other laptop (long story, not really relevant) just before Cosmic Cuttlefish was released, so there is a non-zero chance that things may have changed. I'd really like to see what results @GCandy77 gets with a Groovy Gorilla LiveUSB.
2. Isn't ROCm another option?

If I ever have to re-install it again then I will let u know what happens via the GG Live usb install, but the system seems stable as its been fine the last few days, even after pop-shop updates.

 

I tried the ROCm method with the kernel that came with the 19.10 release n came across the same issues back then ( didnt work)  n dont fancy going thru all that again, but thx for the suggestion anyway