Can't load firmware "radeon/CYPRESS_uvd.bin"

Hi all,

I upgraded to opensuse 12.3 from 12.2 with install CD. upgrade didn’t go smoothly , it hang several times, I had to restart.
At the end I don’t get GUI login , just text login and above it error message :

radeon_uvd
Can’t load firmware “radeon/CYPRESS_uvd.bin”
if I log in as root I can startx and KDE comes up as usual.
Thanks for you help

If X/KDE works as root then your problem can’t be caused by the missing firmware I think.

Looks more like a permission problem.
There was a bug in plymouth that maybe could cause this. Have you installed all updates?
Run “zypper up” in text mode or use YaST->Online Updates either in text mode or after “startx”.

Does booting to recovery mode work? You can select this in “Advanced options” in the boot menu.
Then please do this:

  • do a normal boot until you get stuck in text mode
  • then reboot and boot to “recovery mode”, login (if recovery mode doesn’t work either, just login as root in text mode and run “startx”)
  • Upload the file “/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old” to SUSE Paste or similar and post a link here

In addition, you could disable plymouth and see if it helps:

  • at the boot menu press ‘e’ on the keyboard
  • search for a line starting with “linux” and append “plymouth.enable=0” to it
  • press F10 to boot

But on second thought, since you mentioned installation problems, maybe just kdm or some package it depends on was not installed/upgraded correctly?
Do you get any output when you run “systemctl start xdm” in text mode as root?
What does “systemctl status xdm” say?

Maybe there’s something in /var/log/kdm.log?

Thanks a lot, indeed installing updates with zypper up fixed the problem, everything looks correct and as before.