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AMD RX560 on Debian Stretch - Not supported?

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Re: AMD RX560 on Debian Stretch - Not supported?

#41 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

mrkapqa wrote:I am a bit confused by the wiki here as it says "Open Source Drivers"

https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo


Does Debian not allow to include such "Open Source Drivers" ?
Debian includes the open source AMD drivers but not the non-free firmware. From your linked wiki page:
Debian wiki wrote:Firmware

Proprietary, binary-only firmware (aka microcode) was removed from the Debian kernel's radeon DRM driver in linux-2.6 2.6.29-1, to resolve Debian bug 494009. The firmware can be provided by installing the firmware-amd-graphics or firmware-linux-nonfree package.

Without this package installed, poor 2D/3D performance in the radeon driver is commonly experienced. Some GPUs may require firmware to operate the X Window System, or do dual display.
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Re: AMD RX560 on Debian Stretch - Not supported?

#42 Post by smoki »

mrkapqa wrote: I am a bit confused by the wiki here as it says "Open Source Drivers"

https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo

Does Debian not allow to include such "Open Source Drivers" ?

These drivers are open source, while firmwares are not. So Debian ship drivers (for which code is available), while for firmwares (for which code is not available) you need to do something about.

In this case it is enough to enable non-free repo and to install missing blobs... while you are there take a look, maybe you need something more from there :lol:
Like maybe CPU microcode updates, etc... these are also blobies and also not installed by default of course.

Like BIOS updates blobies for your mobo, optional sometimes not so maybe you want it maybe don't :D

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Re: AMD RX560 on Debian Stretch - Not supported?

#43 Post by mrkapqa »

The only serious problems i ever had with Graphics or Firmware was with PowerPC Graphics on Powermac G5 when upgrading to Jessie (that concerned Nvidia, mostly).
Also some ATI Graphics had a bit of trouble on Powerbook G4, but that was also more of a singular Graphics Card Line Problem.

Since i run a RyzenPC withouth WiFi or Bluetooth i don't think i am missing something , but thanks for the tip, i still might take a look around to see what is there to learn.

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Re: AMD RX560 on Debian Stretch - Not supported?

#44 Post by mrkapqa »

Hello ,

i have made a fresh install of Devuan Ascii (based on Debian Stretch) and this graphics card is still poorly performing.


Is there any way to improve the graphics driver for RX560 on Debian 9?
The graphics card is not the best, but i was hoping that the opensource driver would perform better.


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#45 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

mrkapqa wrote:i have made a fresh install of Devuan Ascii (based on Debian Stretch) and this graphics card is still poorly performing.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=20766#p20766

I presume that's your thread over at dev1galaxy.org?
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Re: AMD RX560 on Debian Stretch - Not supported?

#46 Post by mrkapqa »

yes, and i upgraded to Devuan3.0 in the meantime,

so my question should be upgraded to

"what can i do on Debian Buster to improve the situation for the RX560 Graphics Card".


Well, probably , not much, i suppose.

Sadly, the AMDGPU-PRO software won't install, am i right?

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#47 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

mrkapqa wrote:yes, and i upgraded to Devuan3.0 in the meantime,

so my question should be upgraded to

"what can i do on Debian Buster to improve the situation for the RX560 Graphics Card".
Devuan is not supported here and Debian buster is off-topic for this thread.

If you want to try Debian buster then please do so but only open a new thread after you have tried the non-free firmware.
mrkapqa wrote:the AMDGPU-PRO software won't install, am i right?
The AMDGPU-PRO driver is out-performed by the open-source version for almost all tasks, see the Phoronix website for more on this.
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