AMD Ryzen 5 8500G Radeon 740M drivers - debian 12 xfce

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AMD Ryzen 5 8500G Radeon 740M drivers - debian 12 xfce

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Hello,

Just built a new AM5 system. Put Debian 12 xfce on.

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G with radeon 740m integrated
Asrock X600-STX deskmini
32gb ddr5

Looks like stuck in 800x600 resolution. There are no other resolutions available. I have installed amdgpu as per https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo

But still stuck in 800x600. (running a 4k monitor usually)

For an experiment ubuntu and fedora seem to work, but I really want to stick with debian. :)

Are there any other drivers or kernels that can work?

Many thanks in advance.
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Re: AMD Ryzen 5 8500G Radeon 740M drivers - debian 12 xfce

#2 Post by blackbird »

GPU drivers are part of the Linux kernel. It can be updated from the backports: https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=159363
Additionally you can update the firmware from the backports, I think this should be the firmware-amd-graphics package.

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Re: AMD Ryzen 5 8500G Radeon 740M drivers - debian 12 xfce

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blackbird wrote: 2024-10-18 12:19 GPU drivers are part of the Linux kernel. It can be updated from the backports: https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=159363
Additionally you can update the firmware from the backports, I think this should be the firmware-amd-graphics package.
thanks, added backports and followed the steps.

upon reboot getting the following error message and not able to reach the login screen at all now.

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Re: AMD Ryzen 5 8500G Radeon 740M drivers - debian 12 xfce

#4 Post by blackbird »

There are two entries of Debian 12 on linux-hardware.org which say the processor works: https://linux-hardware.org/?id=cpu:amd- ... m-graphics, one even with the kernel 6.1. So in principle the processor works with Debian.

You could check the logs for lightdm messages with

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journalctl -xb | grep lightdm | less
Or all errors during boot with

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journalctl -p 3 -xb | less
If you don't know the less command, you can navigate with it through the output with space and arrow keys and leave it with q.

To get a text console to enter the commands you can press <ctrl>+<alt>+<Fx> with Fx one of the function keys and login.

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