Radeon RX 7000 Series Working ??? (Bookworm)

[sunrat]

So what do you want us to do about it? You have had a number of replies explaining the situation but you don't seem to accept Linux is not Windows. Contact AMD if you want to air your grievances.
Remember this is a users forum so whingeing here will get you nowhere.

[CynicalDebian]

@Barujin
I have a feeling you read partially through my post, and then you just stopped reading.

Wow.The best example of a critical setting is Anisotropic Filtering.

I gave an example of this:

Sometimes it's nice to be able to force anti-aliasing or vsync or whatever, but there are workarounds to do this without a settings panel.

So we do some research...
"https://gallium.readthedocs.io/en/latest/envvars.html"
Learn from the Mesa docs...

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RADV_TEX_ANISO
    force anisotropy filter (up to 16)

so...

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$ export RADV_TEX_ANISO=16
$ /path/to/my/game/binary

Like I said, be willing to try a different approach, or suffer at the hands of Microsoft.

this stuff is obvious to anyone with experience. Wow.

You really did hurt my feelings :(

[Barujin]

On a separate drive, I've installed Siduction to try an extremely new OS that's intended to be used as such. Of course, I updated it. Then, I even installed what AMD offers on their site. Next, I shut down and set my surround sound receiver to play the audio from the computer. After booting into the OS, I had the crash after maybe a minute. HDMI audio is still broken on my Radeon card. I'm just going to use Windows 10 Pro and suffer from activation problems. I'm quite worried about all of this. Eventually, my video card will work in Linux. That's not my big fear. This is about the current state of Linux. In Windows, I can just run AMD's stuff and get great use of my product, immediately. I am not impressed with Linux at all with hardware issues. This was done by Linux, not AMD.

[CwF]

Eventually, my video card will work in Linux.

Yes, for sure.
Those AMD gpu's released around the time you registered on this forum are running well now.

This was done by Linux, not AMD.

Ahh, I thought I saw a spark, never mind...

[marcelmo]

thank you @sunrat,

I was looking for a different hardware problem audio problem and it was known by me that newer kernels should work with my hardware. But I did not have success with using backports, forgot what it was exactly, I only remember I removed the kernel again... But installing a newer kernel from liquorix script solved my issue! Having HD audio on my Bookworm Chromebook now! Very happy indeed.

[runs]

In 2025 is already possible run flawlessly the AMD RX 7000X series with Debian 12.

I have got a RTX 7600 in a 6.9.10+bpo-amd64 kernel in Debian 12.


1) Install a new kernel >= 6.3

Add Backports to sources.list:

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deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main

to /etc/apt/sources.list (or add a new file with the ".list" extension to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ . I use backports.list)
Update the package database, run:

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apt update

Install kernel metapackages (these will ensure any kernel updates are applied during normal update process):

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apt install -t bookworm-backports linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64

Check your kernel version:

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uname -a

2) Install new Mesa (24.2.4-1~bpo12+1) from backports:

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 sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports mesa-vulkan-drivers

3) Install new firmware for AMD (20240709-2~bpo12+1):

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sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports firmware-amd-graphics

4) Recompile:

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sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

Enjoy!


For the lastest drivers for the kernel (dirty way):

Get all the files which start gc_11_0_4 (7 files) from the upstream linux-firmware and place/overwrite them in /lib/firmware/amdgpu/

Recompile:

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sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

And if you come from a Nvidia card remember to do:

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sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

or
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg