Manage drivers loaded via initramfs

noko62

Hello all,
I'm a long-time Solus user (Solus Budgie since v1.2) and I ran into a problem with my 'new' graphic card (AMD FirePro): changing the screen resolution in 'System Setting' leads to a black screen for approx. 30 seconds and after that reverts to the original setting.
That's why I wanted to try the 'amdgpu' driver instead of the installed by default 'radeon' module, but I can't find a way to change this.
All the hints mentioned in the 'Boot Management' part of Solus' help center refer to clr-boot-manager, but I'm on legacy boot (Grub) becaus my pc doesn't doesn't have EFI bios.
All Grub boot parameters I tried out appear to be ignored - no matter if applied directly on the Grub command line or in '/etc/default/grub' and an 'update-grub' command afterwards.
So my question is: does Solus allow to alter the initramfs by the (root-)user like other distros do?
I couldn't find any command to accomplish this (like 'mkinitcpio' or 'mkinitramfs', which are available in other distros).

Nice if someone can help.
Best regards and greetings from Austria,
Norbert

WetGeek

noko62 That's why I wanted to try the 'amdgpu' driver instead of the installed by default 'radeon' module, but I can't find a way to change this.

Have you tried using the doflicky (hardware drivers) tool to see whether it is listed there as a replacement you can use?

noko62

WetGeek
Thanks for your reply; WetGeek - yes, I did - but it reports only 'No drivers were found for your system'. Besides this, I have 'amdgpu' on my system and I'm able to load it (sudo modprobe amdgpu) and it loads fine, but it's useless as long as the radeon module is loaded prior.
The good thing on it: I'm stuck at the highest resolution possible for my monitor, so that's not really a disadvantage. But my actually question in my post was how to select/change modules loaded at boot-time via initramfs...

Best regards, Norbert