Re: AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10
Ale, on 2019-09-08 : > On Thu 05/Sep/2019 22:00:58 +0200 Étienne Mollier wrote: > > Out of curiosity, which Ubuntu release did the job? > > > It was Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS. > http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/ubuntu-18.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso > > > > It could give a clue as of required firmware or drivers levels > > for your integrated card, or any other missing component. Well, Ubuntu 18.04 itself was released in April 2018, prior Debian Buster's freeze period January this year. Ubuntu 18.04.3 however has been released in April this year, after the freeze, but before the release of Debian 10: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/18.04.2 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/18.04.3 Since Ubuntu is based on Debian Testing, it might have been reasonable to expect Debian 10 to be sufficient for your hardware; but reality seems to have proven otherwise. Maybe updates regarding driver support and firmware have landed between each minor updates? I see a few occurrences to "amdgpu" in each release notes. You could have been hit by one these little missing bits. Stupid me, not having asked this earlier! If you happen to retry Debian one day, and if that still fails, then it would be interesting to post your "dmesg" output, "Xorg.0.log" content, and other applicable logged information. > Given that Ubuntu is based on Debian, drawing liberally on their work is not > only shameless, it is a savvy arrangement to avoid doing the same work twice. Ubuntu and Debian have differing goals, although both would tend to be an "Universal Operating System". The first one tends to putting GNU/Linux in anyone's hands, while the second would more emphasize respect of the Free Software spirit, at the expense of usability, alas, sometimes. From what I understand, a lot of hard work is done by both sides, benefiting to both distributions. Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10
On Thu 05/Sep/2019 22:00:58 +0200 Étienne Mollier wrote: > Ale, on 2019-09-05: >> On Wed 04/Sep/2019 20:12:55 +0200 Étienne Mollier wrote: >> > 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. > > Out of curiosity, which Ubuntu release did the job? It was Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS. http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/ubuntu-18.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso > It could give a clue as of required firmware or drivers levels > for your integrated card, or any other missing component. Given that Ubuntu is based on Debian, drawing liberally on their work is not only shameless, it is a savvy arrangement to avoid doing the same work twice. Best Ale signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10
Ale, on 2019-09-05: > On Wed 04/Sep/2019 20:12:55 +0200 Étienne Mollier wrote: > > 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. Out of curiosity, which Ubuntu release did the job? It could give a clue as of required firmware or drivers levels for your integrated card, or any other missing component. Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
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 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10
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. I should probably refrain to post past a certain hour in my TZ. Anyway, Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
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
AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10 (Was: Is Buster ready?)
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. 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. You will have more chances with Linux 5.2 from buster-backports. Also there is a faint possibility that your chip might require a firmware update through the non-free package "amd64-microcode". Kind Regards, :) -- Étienne Mollier Fingerprint: 5ab1 4edf 63bb ccff 8b54 2fa9 59da 56fe fff3 882d signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
