Hello, I'm a rather new user of Linux on the desktop / for gaming, and I am lost as to what has happened or how to fix it.
I have a new PC with an AMD R9 7900X3D, an AMD RX 7900XT, and I am running Ubuntu 23.04. `apt` is fully updated, and I don't recall installing anything recently. I played a game last night for hours without any issue. I shut down my PC and went to bed. This afternoon, I got back and found that it hadn't truly shut off, which happens occasionally. I held power to shut it off, and then restarted it as usual. From here, I've been unable to get back to a fully working system with my GPU enabled.
First, I wasn't able to boot at all. It would stop in a boot sequence with the usual output about some ACPI issues, and then the `fsck` output from my sole SSD. Nothing would happen. I booted into a live USB (safe mode) and ran `boot-repair`, which let me get to a GRUB screen and boot into recovery mode. I also ran `fsck` on my disk and it found no errors. In recovery mode, I attempted the following, followed by reboots into "normal" mode, all with no luck getting back GPU acceleration:
- Installed latest stable MESA
- Installed latest unstable MESA
- Installed 6.2.0-24-generic kernel
I'm back to the standard 6.2.0-26 now, and I don't know what else to do. I am able to boot into my system with this kernel, but my video is software accelerated. I am happy to provide any further information or logs, but I don't really know where to start - my experience with Linux is using it to run servers, not games. I'd very much appreciate any help with this. Is my card dead? is it my installation? How can I find out more information?