Please load the driver in debug mode so I can see the error code value in dmesg - when loading the kernel add drm.debug=0xff Also to trace where exactly the error originated from please install trace-cmd and beore starting X (assuming you get the failure and the dmesg error right on start) sudo trace-cmd start -p function_graph -l amdgpu_cs_ioctl and get the output from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace