On Sat, 2022-12-10 at 22:44 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 10:39 PM hw <h...@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.grigo...@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?
What's sid? Testing? Last time I used testing, they broke it all beyond being usable with no fix in sight which forced me to move away from Debian after I had used it for 15 years. I don't really want to come back, and especially I don't want to run testing again.
