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Lenovo Ideapad 330 - most of bootups end with black screen

Unix & Linux Asked by Freddie Chopin on December 31, 2021

We recently bought a Lenovo Ideapad 330-15ARR (81D200DDPB) and I tried to install Arch Linux on it. This PC has an AMD 3 2200U CPU and AMD Radeon Vega 3 GPU.

Most of the boot ups end with a black screen. I first see the Lenovo splash logo, then there’s the “starting version xxx” message from systemd, and then I would expect to see the display manager (GDM in this case). But, in about 80% of the time, instead I see a black screen. It is probably not “completely off”, as I see that it actually is illuminated and it most likely is displaying an all-black image.

Important fact; the very same thing happens with the vanilla Arch Linux installation media (USB pen drive in my case). It ends up with black screen most of the time too.

The system is fully upgraded as of today.

When it actually boots properly everything seems to work fine and I can do whatever I want, but when it ends with black screen, there is nothing I can do. I tried switching virtual TTY with Ctrl + Alt + Fx, but this just doesn’t change anything. The only important thing I tried is to disable Wayland for GNOME/GDM, but this did not make any difference.

Any pointers how should I get to the root cause of this problem and solve it?

One Answer

According to the Gentoo wiki (although the information is applicable to all Linux distros) the amdgpu module may fail to load due to a race condition if it's not included in the initramfs, which is why you're sometimes encountering a black screen.

When using Arch installation medium, make sure linux-firmware is installed and add the amdgpu module in your mkinitcpio config file:

MODULES=(amdgpu ...)

Answered by xDantehh on December 31, 2021

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