Seeking advice on desktop purchase

[hendwolt]

I've build myself a new desktop earlier this year; with the AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600G and a NVMe SSD, ...
The installation of openSUSE Tumbleweed worked without problems. The only thing that is not perfect is the AMDGPU driver.
I experienced the same problems as described here:
https://www.camillescott.org/2020/12/16/amdgpy-edid/

And I'm working with Xorg only (KDE), because with Wayland the at every shutdown the system hangs.
Even though I'm not sure, I would blame the AMDGPU driver for this too.

With this knowledge, I would prefer an Intel CPU today.

Hendrik

[hcvv]

That link looks like a nightmare. Are there no bug report about this?

[hendwolt]

AFAIK: no.
I avoid the problem by using a displayport cable. That causes a few error messages in the boot process, but beside of three or four seconds more boot time everything works fine.
If this problem occurs depends on the monitor. Mine tells the computer: "I can do RGB (computer mode) and YCbCr (TV mode)." In this case the AMDGPU driver uses - hard coded - TV mode.

[hcvv]

No idea what the monitor says.

[dcurtisfra]

I avoid the problem by using a displayport cable.

Here with an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G – Radeon Vega 11 Graphics – and a Iiyama ProLite XB3288UHSU Display – connected via a HDMI cable for a resolution reason – the resolution I need is only available via HDMI …

 > inxi --admin --graphics
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Picasso/Raven 2 [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu 
           v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.0 chip ID: 1002:15d8 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: amdgpu display ID: :0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 140 s-size: 698x393mm (27.5x15.5") s-diag: 801mm (31.5") 
           Monitor-1: HDMI-A-0 res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 140 size: 698x393mm (27.5x15.5") diag: 801mm (31.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 11 Graphics (RAVEN DRM 3.39.0 5.3.18-150300.59.68-default LLVM 11.0.1) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.4 direct render: Yes 
 >

X.Org log –

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[ 35381.535] (II) AMDGPU(0): Supported color encodings: RGB 4:4:4 YCrCb 4:4:4
 .
[ 35381.536] (II) AMDGPU(0): EDID for output DVI-D-0
[ 35381.536] (II) AMDGPU(0): Output HDMI-A-0 connected
[ 35381.536] (II) AMDGPU(0): Output DVI-D-0 disconnected
[ 35381.536] (II) AMDGPU(0): Using exact sizes for initial modes
[ 35381.536] (II) AMDGPU(0): Output HDMI-A-0 using initial mode 3840x2160 +0+0
[ 35381.536] (II) AMDGPU(0): mem size init: gart size :bf6ca000 vram size: s:7cc50000 visible:7cc50000
[ 35381.536] (**) AMDGPU(0): Display dimensions: (698, 393) mm
[ 35381.536] (**) AMDGPU(0): DPI set to (139, 139)