(In reply to Alex Deucher from comment #33)
> (In reply to Talha Khan from comment #31)
> > I moved the raven_dcmu.bin file to another directory, but unfortunately I am
> > still unable to boot any kernel newer 4.20. For me at least, I get a black
> > screen with a horizontal line near the bottom of orange pixels. I will
> > attach the journalctl output from my last boot into kernel 5.0.5.
> 
> Make sure you update your initrd if you move the file, otherwise, the driver
> will pick it up from the initrd at load time.

Alex, is there a known issue with raven_dmcu.bin and this chipset or is it
specific to this laptop?  

No distro with a recent kernel is installable on my laptop unless I nomodeset
the kernel and remove this firmware file from the initramfs.

Thanks.