I managed to install malcoms script on my USB-TW and the desktop comes up fine! Unbelievable…
Now I have to try to make this work on the HDD version, although I hardly see any chance (much higher power consumption with 2x 1 TB WD red installed in the machine).
Excellent. Contacting the AMD driver writers was my next suggestion just about to submit when your post #81 notice showed up. Here is is anyway just in case & for web searches: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati for sure, maybe also irc://freenode/#ati
Post #45](https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/528192-ATI-FirePro-M7740-went-unstable-any-ideas?p=2845982#post2845982) looks like is the one with malcomb’s github script reference.
Added 3 to bootline, installed the script and set power profile to “battery” and “low”. Now back to normal… many thanks anybody!
I think since switch to kernel 5 the problems are back… 
Still everything fine with Win 7 though.
Will I have to go through this with every new major kernel release in the future?
Hi
Use the systemd service to activate on boot…
Many thanks for reply!
Using the warp wrench or calling Uri Geller? What are you taking about? 
PS: Found out that the hardware RAID 1 is in resync, that’s why everything takes VERY long (“Starting switch to root” took several minutes, login also…), but it seems to be up and running now.
I think I started the trouble when I replaced the external power supply from the old Dell 10.8 A to a generic one with 12.8 A. It didn’t like the switch, but now after some win 7 updates, reboots etc. appears to be stable again…
On Sun 24 Mar 2019 04:26:03 PM CDT, suse rasputin wrote:
Many thanks for reply!
Using the warp wrench or calling Uri Geller? What are you taking about?
Hi
Way back at the beginning of the thread are the instruction… you
installed the following?
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Jepp, everything back to normal in the meantime, thank’s for replying!
TWIMC: As of yesterday, neither Leap nor TW with the energy setting enabled as described above were able to reach the GUI, while Win 7 was absolutely fine. Problemsolved, kind of, by installing Debian stretch. But this is no fun, as it has no YaST…
