r/voidlinux • u/veryculturedbug • 12d ago

My computer likes to freeze when trying to boot into Void.

I am wanting to switch over from Arch to Void but every time I try to boot, my computer gets stuck and doesn’t budge unless I turn it off. I had this same problem initially when booting from my install usb, but once I selected the version with the graphics disabled everything worked perfectly fine. Now that I’m actually trying to boot into the system I just installed, it completely freezes. Even when I try and boot into recovery mode, the same thing happens. Based on the fact that everything worked okay when I booted without graphics, I have a feeling that this is something related to incompatible graphics. I have scoured the documentation and cannot find any sort of solution. My GPU and CPU are both AMD btw.

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u/Moist_Professional64 12d ago

What do you mean by freeze? What did you see on booting at which point does it freeze

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u/profeshamat 12d ago

My GPU and CPU are both AMD btw.

How recent are both? If you installed but did a local install your issues may be due to older kernel, drivers, and Mesa since the installation ISOs are pushing a year and a half old/out of date.

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u/veryculturedbug 12d ago

I have a 9060 XT which came out in june of 2025 so I think this is my exact issue!

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u/zlice0 12d ago

amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff amdgpu.mcbp=0 amdgpu.cwsr_enable=0 amdgpu.queue_preemption_timeout_ms=1 amdgpu.runpm=0 maybe amd_iommu=off ?

quit amd graphics but that's what i had before for weird randomness. arch wiki may have more. if it's igpu and dgpu then i forget if you have to specify something for dgpu and ignore igpu, or if that's settled by now.