Proprietary drivers for Intel - UHD Graphics 770

[ashim]

Dear all,

I am on a Debian 12 server.

My problem is that the server keeps freezing. When it freezes it does not allow SSH connections. Then I have to reboot the server and then it allows SSH connections.

I have read on the internet that this is because of open source drivers used with proprietary hardware - usually the graphics card.

Here is a part of the output from :

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lspci -v

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Raptor Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 208
        Memory at 6003000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at 4000000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at 7000 [size=64]
        Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [40] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0c <?>
        Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [ac] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [100] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
        Capabilities: [200] Address Translation Service (ATS)
        Capabilities: [300] Page Request Interface (PRI)
        Capabilities: [320] Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915, xe

Can some one show me how to install the corresponding proprietary drivers for this card on Debian 12?

Many thanks,
Ashim

[FreewheelinFrank]

Intel provides and supports open source drivers.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics

Intel drivers are generally included in the kernel so nothing to install.

viewtopic.php?p=812991#p812991

You may be thinking of non-free firmware:

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-polic ... chive-area

From the second link:

You may need some firmware though. Maybe firmware-intel-graphics, intel-microcode etc. Best to install the versions from Backports as your computer is fairly recent.
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=intel

I have read on the internet that this is because of open source drivers used with proprietary hardware - usually the graphics card.

Not everything you read on the internet is true, rational, or even sane. Better to investigate the cause of the freeze.

[ashim]

Hello,

Many thanks for your reply. Can you please point me in the right direction? How do I investigate the cause of the freeze?

[FreewheelinFrank]

There are quite a few things to try here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions ... em_freeze/

[ashim]

I see:

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root@rescue / # journalctl -b-1 -perr
Jan 10 02:35:44 xxxxxxxxxx systemd[1]: Failed to start networking.service - Raise network interfaces.
Jan 10 02:35:44 xxxxxxxxxx ntpd[973]: CONFIG: restrict nopeer ignored
Jan 10 02:35:44 xxxxxxxxxx ntpd[973]: CLOCK: leapsecond file ('/usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list'): expired less than 14 days ago
Jan 10 02:35:44 xxxxxxxxxx ntpd[973]: statistics directory /var/log/ntpsec/ does not exist or is unwriteable, error No such file or d>
Jan 10 02:36:45 xxxxxxxxxx kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: no codecs found!

How can I update the leapseconds.list?

[Uptorn]

I would try

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journalctl -fu networking.service

And would also consider checking that the system time in your board's BIOS/EFI settings is correct.

[FreewheelinFrank]

It's not actually an unreasonable hypothesis that a graphics issue is a cause of this freeze. It won't hurt to make sure you have the firmware mentioned in the quote from sunrat installed, as well as investigating any issues in the journal.

[ashim]

When I did:

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root@rescue / # ntpleapfetch
NOTICE: File expired on Sat Dec 28 12:00:00 AM UTC 2024

The above seems to be waiting for some input.

[ashim]

I turned on verbose output, it is showing a 404, what do I do now ?

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root@rescue / # ntpleapfetch -v
INFO: Checksum of /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list validated
NOTICE: File expired on Sat Dec 28 12:00:00 AM UTC 2024
INFO: Attempting download from https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list, try 1..
--2025-01-11 05:12:48--  https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list
Resolving www.ietf.org (www.ietf.org)... 2606:4700::6810:2c63, 2606:4700::6810:2d63, 104.16.45.99, ...
Connecting to www.ietf.org (www.ietf.org)|2606:4700::6810:2c63|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2025-01-11 05:12:48 ERROR 404: Not Found.

INFO: Waiting 10 minutes before retrying...

I found these 2 on the internet:

https://blog.x-way.org/Linux/2024/11/10 ... fetch.html
https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/-/comm ... 3103fad818

I think I should be doing:

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ntpleapfetch -s https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/leap-seconds.list

[ashim]

I did :

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root@rescue / # ntpleapfetch -s https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/leap-seconds.list
NOTICE: File expired on Sat Dec 28 12:00:00 AM UTC 2024
INFO: Download of https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/leap-seconds.list succeeded
chown: invalid group: ‘root:wheel’
NOTICE: Installed new  /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list from https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/leap-seconds.list

Query: May I ignore the chown : invalid group: ‘root:wheel’ ?
Is it big deal ?

[ashim]

I would try

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journalctl -fu networking.service

And would also consider checking that the system time in your board's BIOS/EFI settings is correct.

When I do :

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journalctl -fu networking.service 

it seems to be stuck. It does not respond even after waiting.

What should I be doing ?

When I mount the block device and do chroot to the folder where the block device is mounted, then I get this:

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root@rescue / # journalctl -fu networking
Failed to get boot id: No such file or directory

[arzgi]

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Jan 10 02:35:44 xxxxxxxxxx ntpd[973]: statistics directory /var/log/ntpsec/ does not exist or is unwriteable, error No such file or d>

I think this is your problem.

[bbbhltz]

Edit: I have added some code blocks in some of the posts