Re: Debian failed
On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 10:39 PM hw <hw@adminart.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-12-04 at 18:42 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > ...
> > Yeah, a newer kernel is probably worth a try. The 5.8 kernel may work.
> > The 5.15 kernel will work based on my experience.
> >
> > For completeness, here is the mini-pc I was having trouble with:
> > https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2RHXLDK . It is described as 'AMD Ryzen 5
> > 5560U with AMD Radeon Graphics'.
> >
> > [...]
> > The thing that kept tripping me up was:
> >
> > # lspci | grep -v 'bridge:'
> > ...
> > 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
> > [AMD/ATI] Device 1638 (rev c3)
> > 04:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 1637
> >
> > Device 1638 was supposed to use amdgpu driver per [1,2]. But it didn't
> > - it used an old ati driver. I did not realize the 5.4 kernel was too
> > old. The 5.4 kernel lacked Cezanne support.
> >
> > [1] https://drmdb.emersion.fr/devices?driver=amdgpu
> > [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU
>
> IIRC, I got the amdgpu module to load and it still didn't detect the
> graphics card right.
>
> How can Debian be so old? I thought I could use it for workstations and
> servers, but when it can't even work right with a relatively old
> graphics card, its usefulness becomes very questionable --- and it
> leaves me without a good alternative.
Here's the version of amdgpu I am using on Ubuntu 22.04:
$ apt show amdgpu
Package: amdgpu
Version: 22.20.50200-1438747~22.04
Priority: optional
Section: metapackages
Maintainer: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) <slava.grigorev@amd.com>
Installed-Size: 9,216 B
Depends: amdgpu-dkms, amdgpu-lib (= 22.20.50200-1438747~22.04)
Download-Size: 1,684 B
APT-Sources: https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/22.20/ubuntu jammy/main
amd64 Packages
Description: Meta package to install amdgpu components.
...
The version of amdgpu on Ubuntu 20.04 did not recognize the card. It
gave me a lot of trouble until I upgraded to 22.04 with the 5.15
kernel.
Maybe you can try Debian Sid?
Jeff
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