– Hi, Been a while since I have used parrot, but i am finally getting back into security again and I got it installed on my newly built workstation. To my disappointment, I seem to be having a weird graphical issue in which little boxes appear in certain places on the screen. This doesn’t happen if I boot with acpi off, but then I can’t shutdown properly or sleep the workstation. Any help with this is much appreciated. it was actually quite hard to grab a screenshot because the pixels would move when I tried.–
Parrot version in use(if you are not aware of it, open terminal and type cat /etc/os-release | grep VERSION): I am using parrot 5.3
Kernel version(if you are not aware of it, open terminal and type uname -r): Kernel version 6.1
Good morning.
Reading the INXI would I be correct in assuming this is a Radon 7900 series GPU?
This is extremely new, and therefore I can find very little information on it, One review I found did say that it works best on Kernel 6.2 or higher, the newest stable available direct from kernel.org is 6.4.4, so may be worth a try
Ah yes, I had seen that and installed it. I am confused on how I would go about installing this driver, as the command to install it says that it doesn’t recognize my distribution (it’s a package meant for Ubuntu).
Yes, I am aware that it should. But sadly, the following output happens when running amdgpu-install:
┌─[n3onkn1ght@parrot]─[~]
└──╼ $amdgpu-install
Unsupported OS: /etc/os-release ID 'parrot'
Further more, I tried to trick it by changing the release name (worked for some packages back when I used ubuntu but didn’t have an LTS release for some things) it shows that I am missing a lot of dependencies that aren’t installable.
Good morning,
OK so I just did a test run on my system [parrot home] I downloaded the .deb package, opened my download file, RIGHT-clicked on the amdgpu folder, the first option is open with Deb installer, clicked on this, and entered password, and it installed in a few seconds. no messages or errors.
I was able to install fine as well, but I am still having the graphics issues, and I see on the website for AMD that I should run the amdgpu-install which is what then gives me the errors.
If you used the deb installer within your Parrot [as I did], then you do not need amdgpu-install [it’s for distributions that do not include the .deb installer] the Debian installer will automatically install any dependencies needed.
I am beginning to think the problem may lay elsewhere, what is the make and full model of your machine [or inxi -bz ]
I cannot spot anything wrong from your latest inxi.
Have you tried checking the connections to the monitor or possibly swapping the cable? [I have had cables go out on me in the past]
I have swapped the cables and the issue still persists. Also it is worth noting that I have both a windows and an arch installation on different drives on this desktop and I don’t have graphical issues. Would it be of any relevance at all to note that I don’t have these graphical issues when I boot with acpi pff?
Also one more thing I noticed very strange, I do not have this graphical issue on the firefox browser app, it’s like it happens with everything except it.
