Cannot start x server with amdgpu

[momo87]

Hi wonderful proxmox community,

Recently, I bought a HP Elitebook 865 G9 with Ryzen 6850HS cpu and IGPU 680M.

I managed to install proxmox VE7.2 with the following command.

During installation:

Ctr+shift F3 to tty3
chmod 1777 /tmp
$ apt update
$ apt upgrade
$ Xorg -configure
$ mv /xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
$ nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
$ ctr+w to replace Keyword "amdgpu" with "fbdev"
$ startx

Apt update dust upgrade to kernel 5.19

After installation

Repeat the same steps with the following change in directory

nano /root/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Problem :

I cannot utilise my IGPU 680M.because x server always hangs at start x server if I try to replace fbdev back to amdgpu.

Pls help. Thank you

 

[mira]

Most likely the mesa version in Bullseye (20.x) is too old for this GPU.
Do you need a graphical environment directly on the PVE host?

Disabling the use of the GPU is currently all that's possible unless Debian releases newer mesa packages to `bullseye-backports`.

 

[momo87]

Hi Mira,

Yes. I want to use my new laptop as a normal laptop with SharePoint VM and play steam games with a desktop environment. I found out, but am not very sure, that gnome does not need Xorg to function. I managed to install gnome for my desktop environment without the need to execute "Xorg -configure" and without the need to replace amdgpu with fbdev for /etc/X11/xorg.conf. However, steam cannot utilise the rdna2 680m.

Am I right to say that V.E 7.3 comes with amdgpu https://amdgpu-install.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install-script.html?

 

[mira]

`amdgpu` is part of the kernel. Make sure you use kernel 5.19 [0].

But you probably won't be able to play games since the Mesa version in Debian Bullseye is simply too old to support the newer RDNA2 graphics cards.
And as far as I know there's no newer version in bullseye-backports.

The graphics hardware is simply too new for Debian Bullseye.


[0] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/opt-in-linux-5-19-kernel-for-proxmox-ve-7-x-available.115090/

 

[momo87]

`amdgpu` is part of the kernel. Make sure you use kernel 5.19 [0].

But you probably won't be able to play games since the Mesa version in Debian Bullseye is simply too old to support the newer RDNA2 graphics cards.
And as far as I know there's no newer version in bullseye-backports.

The graphics hardware is simply too new for Debian Bullseye.


[0] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/opt-in-linux-5-19-kernel-for-proxmox-ve-7-x-available.115090/

Hi Mira,

I have reformatted my laptop to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (with Mesa 22.dx)and it works great out of the box with steam and I can play games at high settings. I tried KVM on Ubuntu to run SharePoint but I really miss the intuitiveness of proxmox.

Debian bookworm has the newer Mesa driver that will support rdna2 integrated GPU.

https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/mesa

Is replacing all “bullseye” with “bookworm” for /etc/apt/sources.list advisable and sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade advisable? Given that it’s still in testing

https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/

Feeling so torn now. Having to use Ubuntu for now and having to go through the trouble of converting my proxmox van to qcow2 for KVM on Ubuntu.

 

[shanreich]

Is replacing all “bullseye” with “bookworm” for /etc/apt/sources.list advisable and sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade advisable? Given that it’s still in testing

This is strongly recommended against by Debian, according to their Wiki [1], and could lead to issues with the operating system. It is also strongly recommended against by us, since the packages we provide via the Proxmox repositories would still be based on the current stable version, which are incompatible with the bookworm versions.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian

 

[momo87]

This is strongly recommended against by Debian, according to their Wiki [1], and could lead to issues with the operating system. It is also strongly recommended against by us, since the packages we provide via the Proxmox repositories would still be based on the current stable version, which are incompatible with the bookworm versions.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian

Thanks Shanreich. Till bookworm shall I date proxmox again.