Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 21/12/2017 17:41, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two machines no longer switch to SDDM on 
> VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I can switch manually using CTRL-ALT-7 to SDDM and login as usual. If I boot 
> with the last stable kernel 4.12.12 anything is back to normal and the login screen of SDDM appears directly 
> while the rest of the modules is loaded in background.
> 
> Both machines have older Radeon chips (REDWOOD and CEDAR) and I managed to load also their firmware 
> with the new kernel 4.14.7, but there's still no automatic switch to VT7 anymore.
> 
> I found nothing obvious in /var/log/messages, dmesg or Xorg.0.log. What may cause this weird behavior?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jörg
> 
> 


It's probably a dodgy kernel point bersion, 4.14 is problematic.

Alice Ferrazzi posted this to gentoo-dev earlier today:

=====start quote=====
Hello,

We have recently started the stabilization of gentoo-sources-4.14.8.

Very soon we received reports regarding broken e1000e driver [1] and moved
to gentoo-sources-4.14.8-r1.

Since then we keep receiving new problems related to 4.14.x kernel:

- IPSec is broken [2]

- Change in 4.14.9 broke nVIDIA driver [3]

- Colors on console are broken with some Radeon HD cards [4]

- BUG report on boot [5]

- Unbootable system with CONFIG_MCORE2 [6]

- ...more bugs [7]

While not all issues are present in gentoo-sources-4.14.8-r1 we are
concerned about the current stability/quality of the 4.14.x branch in
general and don't feel comfortable recommending 4.14.x branch for general
use at the moment. But that's what a stable USE flag means for most
Gentoo users.

So, for now, we have decided to drop gentoo-sources-4.14.x stable keywords.
We will keep watching 4.14 branch and once the stability/quality matches
our requirements we will restart stabilization.

Keep in mind: We are only dropping stable USE flags. If
gentoo-sources-4.14.x works for you and you want to keep it, just keyword
the package on your own!
===== end quote=====

If you want to fix the bugs, then by all means soldier on. But if your
intent is to have a working system that boots, probably drop using
4.14.x and go back to say 4.12.x ?


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com