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Re: AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10



On Wed 04/Sep/2019 20:12:55 +0200 Étienne Mollier wrote:
> Sven, on 2019-09-03:
>> On 2019-09-03 21:49 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Thank you Sven for pointing this out!  You're right, I've been
> confused by personal experience with other chips.  Installation
> of "firmware-amd-graphics" should be sufficient in that case.


For the record, it doesn't work.  I additionally tinkered for a while with the
drivers supplied by AMD, but didn't succeed.  Eventually, I gave up.  Ubuntu
recognizes it out of the box.


Best
Ale


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