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drew85
July 13th, 2020, 01:39 AM
Installed Ubuntu mate 20.04 Lts and everything went fine until it loaded with the screen stair stepping and all garbled. I did updates through cmd line rebooted a few times and screen was fine a powered laptop off turned back on not fixed I have tried a few things with no fix. I know it’s an amd gpu issue.

QIII
July 13th, 2020, 01:54 AM
Hello!

In order for folks to have some idea how to approach this issue, it might be helpful to get a snapshot of the screen and to give a the specifications of your machine.

Thanks!

ActionParsnip
July 13th, 2020, 02:21 PM
Does the system have a make and model?
Do you have the latest BIOS?
Is Ubuntu fully updated?

rsteinmetz70112
July 13th, 2020, 04:11 PM
I'm really not sure what it happening, some more information would be helpful, but it sort of sounds like a problem I had where the screen would suddenly display a very distorted pattern and lock up the computer. There was then no way to make a screen shot except taking a picture of it. If I'm right in my case it was the video driver and installing a different one eventually solved the problem.

ActionParsnip
July 13th, 2020, 04:21 PM
So is this an issue still please? It sounds like you sorted it (to me)