I purchased and installed Zorin OS Pro 17.3 successfully today, and while everything works, there is a quirk with my install it seems. When I soft reboot, that is, click the button to restart from within the OS, it seems to reboot normally, but after it gets to the grub menu, it immediately switches to a black screen where I am unable to interact with it at all, including being unable to access the TTY, then my monitors shut off but the rest of the computer stays on. The only way I can get back to a desktop is to hold down the power button on my computer - then it will boot back up just fine. Other than this the OS seems stable.
System Specifications:
Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 AORUS Elite
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600x
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
RAM: 32GB
OS's: Dual boot with Zorin OS 17.3 Pro and Windows 11 on different SSDs.
Kernel: Linux zorin-os 6.16.0-061600-generic (Was attempting to see if updating to the newest kernel would fix the issue)
It is installed on the drive with ZorinOS, separate from the Windows drive. And I will reach out to them, thank you.
I will also try a different kernel as suggested, I was a tad nervous about picking the absolute bleeding edge one, but was unsure exactly which one to pick.
This is a known issue on AMD cards: During a soft reboot, the GPU does not clear and reinitialize.
If you can test the nomodeset parameter and see if that allows soft reboot to work, I can try to find a better more permenant grub parameter to use other than nomodeset.
Changing it to nomodeset seems to have made the problem worse, as while it would boot to the desktop, it would only turn on my second monitor and lock it to 1024x768. I had to change it back to quiet splash for it to work again after hard rebooting. Possible graphics driver issue? I know my GPU is fairly new, but I am unsure if the built-in Mesa drivers are newer, or older than my GPU.
And adding reboot=efi to /etc/default/grub (if that is what you intended me to do, I am slightly unsure) did not fix the issue either.
Well, that is below what you need for AMD Radeon 7800, so let's correct that. Hopefully, that will resolve the issue all by itself.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ernstp/mesarc
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Please watch the terminal output ensuring that your mesa version is upgraded to above 25.
If you do not see that happen in the terminal, we may need to instruct it manually.
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
# info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
reboot=efi
amdgpu.gpu_recovery=1
# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
GRUB_THEME=/usr/share/grub/themes/zorin/theme.txt
These need to be placed on the Default line, within the quotes.
It would look exactly like this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash reboot=efi"
Or GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash amdgpu.gpu_recovery=1"
Once the change is made, save the file or if using Nano in termainal, tap ctl+o to overwrite, then enter key to save current configuration.
Then tap ctl+x to eXit the editor.
Now run
sudo update-grub
Then perform the soft reboot to test. I think we can try again at reboot=efi
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
# info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash amdgpu.reset_method=hard"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
GRUB_THEME=/usr/share/grub/themes/zorin/theme.txt
Fixed the issue, but I am now back at only one monitor at 1024x768.