AMD 890m iGPU accelerated graphics travails

[gusz]

I have a Beelink SER 9 mini-PC with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU and a Radeon 890M iGPU. I've successfully installed Linux, specifically Kubuntu, as I prefer the Plasma desktop (versus Gnome).

I've tried for literally weeks to get AMDGPU accelerated graphics to work, without success. In hunting on the net I've run across postings that say they've gotten the accelerated graphics on this hardware to work, but these postings provide little detail as to *how* they got it to work. Importantly, some of these short postings do not even say if they're using Windows or Linux. A few of them are Linux-based, and indicate you need to install a certain Linux kernel version. I've tried every kernel version they reccommended, starting with that for Kubuntu 22.04, and some ten newer versions. For some of them the modules/kernel-image/and headers binary/.deb files are hard to even locate and download, let alone install, as current kernel versions have changed and their predecessors disappear (I'm an old retired guy - I've used Linux for about 30 years, and in the "old days" I knew how to configure and compile a kernel, but Linux is much more complex now, and if I had to compile a kernel now I'm sure it would take me weeks and even then I might not succeed).

I've posted previouly on this in several forums, tried using the (minimal) recommendations in responses, nothing worked. So it's a dilemna, and I'd appreciate responses that give more/relevant details, best forums to post in, or links to same. Lastly, I can provide error information from logs, but the errors are different for different kernel versions, so I need to know which version.

Thanks, Gus

[claydoh]

I'm guessing you need a much more current kernel and driver stack than what is in 24.04 or even 24.10 for this highy recent hardware.

And probably a more current firmware.

Poking around briefly it seems 24.10 should have no problems as it will have all the minimum kernel and mesa versions, and probably (more importantly) the more current firmware files

Luckily, Ubuntu 24.04 just updated both Mesa (24.2) and upgraded the kernel (6.11) to the same versions from 24.10. .

You will need to grab new firmware. Not sure if this part is needed in 24.10 or not.

But good easy to folliw instructions
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtop...24779#firmware

The same page also offers instructions specifically for this hardware for upgrading mesa, which is a good idea IMO, at least until Ubuntu 25. 10. It may not be necessary but will offer better support and performance if you have any issues using the older Mesa.

You can ignore the warning against using ppa-purge if you want to remove and roll back the ppa, but I do agree that using the Kisak repo is the better choice

[gusz]

Hi claydoh: I followed your instructions in the previous post. I am on 24.10 and the following comments not only worked but were easy to apply. I'm getting about 30000 FPS in glxgears, which confirms that accelerated graphics is working. As noted in my initial post, I'd spent a lot of time trying to get accelerated graphics working, withour success, so I am *most* grateful that you supplied the details I needed. ( I wanted to mark the post solved, but can't figure out to do it).

Best, Gus

[claydoh]

I wanted to mark the post solved,

Edit your original post, and at the top where it shows "no prefix" you can change it there.
You can also at the bottom of my post, click the "set as answer' button. This is a new feature, not sure if that adds anything to the post title or adds any visible markings like it does on other forum software.