On 5/8/22 09:01, Tom Low-Shang via talk wrote:
On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 11:04:00PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
Thankfully (I think), I was able to scp the X.org log file to another computer so I wouldn't lose it on the USB stick's live boot. I attach it below, and ask assistance from anyone who can read these files so I can understand why it's dying. My graphics card is a fairly recent AMD RX 6500 XT which works fine under Windows and is claimed to be supported by X.
[ 13.537] Current Operating System: Linux mx1 5.10.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5 .10.106-1 (2022-03-17) x86_64
The kernel is too old. RX 6000 generation needs 5.12 or new > MX has an Advanced Hardware Support repository which they claim supports more recent hardware. Try the .iso image with "ahs" in the name, if that isn't the one that you are using now. The ahs .iso boots into Xfce, not KDE.
If kernel is too old, then how does "advanced hardware support" fix it? They use newer kernel? Anyways, this is too much work for a user. If you want the latest distro, just wait for Fedora-36 or try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Or, bite the bullet and try Kubuntu-22.04 (hopefully 22.04.1 will fix some of the issues).