i just wanted to personally say thank you @z7vl7abxc for all the help you've been giving me over these past few days.
its been really nice solving these issues with help! i would've never been able to do it on my own.
Have a look in your BIOS and see if their is an option to choose.
will do.
it looks like the specific firmware you need:
isn't included in version 20210315-3 of the amd firmware. i believe i found it in a newer version: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye-backports/firmware-amd-graphics
inxi -r
Repos:
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com elsie main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
2: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
3: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
4: deb http://security.debian.org bullseye-security main contrib non-free
5: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
Roger that!all this is getting a bit too advanced for me so imma just wait and chill and hope someone finds a good solution. im not risking ruining the only printer friendly device in the house just to be able to play deep rock galatic again (rip deep rock galatic) thanks for your help guys, i hope we can find a solution soon
i think it has been said, but lmde 5 is based on debian 11. a few distros i have tested that are based on debian 12 have the newer version of amd firmware that should work with your gpu. i don't know how soon it will be out, but lmde 6 will be based on debian 12: https://9to5linux.com/lmde-6-codenamed-faye-linux-mint-21-3-is-planned-for-christmas-2023imma just wait and chill and hope someone finds a good solution. im not risking ruining the only printer friendly device in the house just to be able to play deep rock galatic again (rip deep rock galatic) thanks for your help guys, i hope we can find a solution soon
i found in my bios where to select the driver, at first it gave an error message about SGX but i fixed that, now it just boots to a black screen. i think i need to troubleshoot with the drivers.Have a look in your BIOS and see if there are any options to select which GPU you want to use.
You can also use the glxinfo command to find more info on which GPU is running the show. See here:
Check and Monitor Active GPU in Linux | Baeldung on Linux
Explore options to check and monitor the active video card of a Linux system.www.baeldung.com
Before you give the Last Resort a try d-message the driver of the GPU if you think the driver isn't loading.
Code:dmesg <name of driver>
Drivers are listed under lsmod.
The Xorg log is helpful too- Just run this command to see what's going on.
Code:/var/log/Xorg.0.log
Last Resort: You could blacklist the driver for the GPU that you don't want to run the show. USE Caution here!
IF you decide to do that write down what you did so you can re-enable it again if you have to.
If the driver for the GPU that you didn't blacklist is not loading as it should: the screen will most likely stay black.
how do i find this?For fun I looked through my Xorg log and the driver/module for my Radeon GPU is loading.
Code:Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so [ 18.871] (II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
The AMDGPU driver is working well on my Debian system.
Code:amdgpu 6713344 0 gpu_sched 49152 1 amdgpuCode:i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 amdgpu,radeon ttm 114688 2 amdgpu,radeon
I could be mistaken, however if my memory serves me right the AMDGPU driver is already in the Linux kernel.
Hope that helps:-
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers$ ls
amdgpu_drv.so fbdev_drv.so modesetting_drv.so qxl_drv.so vesa_drv.so
ati_drv.so intel_drv.so nouveau_drv.so radeon_drv.so vmware_drv.soLook under your file system: /var/log/Xorg.o.log.
I'd go back into the BIOS and undue what you selected, save the changes and reboot.
www.trentonsystems.com
ty. also btw they are gonna release LMDE 6 with 5.15 kernel sometime this christmas,so all i gotta do is wait and the driver issues will be resolved. so yeah but also ty for the help everyoneI'd go back into the BIOS and undue what you selected, save the changes and reboot.
Remember our member: z7vl7abxc, said that he was able to determine that the driver isn't loading for your AMD GPU.
Driver conflict is no fun. Been there, done that.
Also, have a look at what I mentioned in post #26.
SGX Information:
What is Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions)?
Intel SGX can protect your most sensitive data via a secure process within memory. Learn more about it in this blog post.
@Brickwizard is good with LMDE. If my memory serves me correctly he is currently running it on one of his machines.
you don't have to worry about that , Mint updater will do it for you without having to do a re-install.
Yup, blacklisting worked for me in the past.
