Re: AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10
On 2019-09-03 21:49 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> Alessandro Vesely, on 2019-09-03 :
>> That laptop features a radeon "Vega 6" graphic card, which
>> doesn't seem to be recognised (lspci -k reports no drivers for
>> VGA and Non-VGA entries). I'm wandering if I should try and
>> install the packages in
>> https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-prorad-lin-18-20,
>> for Ubuntu 18.04. Don't they do Debian?
>
> Good day,
>
> I don't see your chip in the "AMD Product Family Compatibility",
> so that's probably a dead end. Also the "firmware-amd-graphics"
> non-free package does not advertise compatibility with it. From
> what I understand, this is some sort of AMD integrated graphics.
Yes, it is used in the Ryzen 2300U mobile processor[1].
> It is possible that your hardware is a wee bit too recent for
> Debian 10 vanilla: Vega support for the amdgpu driver landed in
> Linux 4.20, but Debian 10 ships with kernel version 4.19.
No, the 4.20 kernel added support for the brand-new 7nm Vega20 GPUs.
Older Vega GPUs such as Alassandro's are supported in 4.19.
> Also there is a faint possibility that your chip might require a
> firmware update through the non-free package "amd64-microcode".
The graphics card actually needs firmware-amd-graphics. The
amd64-microcode package is for the CPU, and is recommended if the
manufacturer does not provide firmware updates.
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_RX_Vega_series#Mobile_APUs
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