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Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (devujan) — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:41:37 +0000

A quick reply to this thread.
To me stability, and low administrative workload generation is a target I pursue with every laptop I configure for my clients (family mostly). Also privacy and usability are important to me.
The last 30 years I learned that the operating system should ripe and age with the hardware in use - to keep administration effort on the lowest possible level.
I recently got a Tuxedo "Aura 15" (a Clevo OEM) with AMD Ryzen 4700U and thus RENOIR graphic integrated.
As there is no (at least I didn't find it) ISO for chimera I booted a beowulf 3.1 iso and installed a fde chimera on it.
I painstakingly installed all the necessary firmware packages and the graphics just worked out of the box.
Ok chimera is testing ... (but a lot better the the preinstalled Ubuntu Frankendebian).
I only found that the KDE akonadi was even more crap than expected ('apt-mark hold "akonadi* packages"' helps to keep that uninstalled stuff out)- but I guess the overall workload to keep that laptop patched and functional the next 5 years is significantly lower than starting with (a heavily patched MX-Franken-)beowulf - and because of that reinstalling a chimera once it is officially released.
Your mileage may vary.
I just want to point out installing minimal beowulf and migrating it to chimera is an option for that brand new hardware.

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (Klmjab) — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:53:25 +0000

Solved !!

@HOAS,

Thank you for your suggestion!

@Rolfie

thanks for the encouragement!

Finally:

@amanda:~$ glxinfo -B
name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: X.Org (0x1002)
    Device: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.38.0, 5.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64, LLVM 10.0.0) (0x1636)
    Version: 20.1.8
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 512MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.6
    Max compat profile version: 4.6
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
Memory info (GL_ATI_meminfo):
    VBO free memory - total: 340 MB, largest block: 340 MB
    VBO free aux. memory - total: 3043 MB, largest block: 3043 MB
    Texture free memory - total: 340 MB, largest block: 340 MB
    Texture free aux. memory - total: 3043 MB, largest block: 3043 MB
    Renderbuffer free memory - total: 340 MB, largest block: 340 MB
    Renderbuffer free aux. memory - total: 3043 MB, largest block: 3043 MB
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
    Dedicated video memory: 512 MB
    Total available memory: 3584 MB
    Currently available dedicated video memory: 340 MB
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.38.0, 5.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64, LLVM 10.0.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 20.1.8
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 20.1.8
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 20.1.8
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

List of installed/updated packages from MX Linux AHS Repo

@amanda:~$ dpkg -l | grep mx
ii  firmware-amd-graphics                 20200918-1~mx19+1                            all          Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips
ii  firmware-linux-nonfree                20200918-1~mx19+1                            all          Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel (meta-package)
ii  firmware-misc-nonfree                 20200918-1~mx19+1                            all          Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
ii  firmware-realtek                      20200918-1~mx19+1                            all          Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
ii  libdrm-amdgpu1:amd64                  2.4.102-1~mx19ahs+1                          amd64        Userspace interface to amdgpu-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime
ii  libdrm-common                         2.4.102-1~mx19ahs+1                          all          Userspace interface to kernel DRM services -- common files
ii  libdrm2:amd64                         2.4.102-1~mx19ahs+1                          amd64        Userspace interface to kernel DRM services -- runtime
ii  libegl-mesa0:amd64                    20.1.8-1~mx19ahs+1                           amd64        free implementation of the EGL API -- Mesa vendor library
ii  libegl1-mesa:amd64                    20.1.8-1~mx19ahs+1                           amd64        transitional dummy package
ii  libgbm1:amd64                         20.1.8-1~mx19ahs+1                           amd64        generic buffer management API -- runtime
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64                 20.1.8-1~mx19ahs+1                           amd64        free implementation of the OpenGL API -- DRI modules
ii  libglapi-mesa:amd64                   20.1.8-1~mx19ahs+1                           amd64        free implementation of the GL API -- shared library
ii  libglx-mesa0:amd64                    20.1.8-1~mx19ahs+1                           amd64        free implementation of the OpenGL API -- GLX vendor library
ii  libllvm10:amd64                       1:10.0.0-4~mx19+1                            amd64        Modular compiler and toolchain technologies, runtime library
ii  libvulkan1:amd64                      1.2.148.1-1~mx19ahs+1                        amd64        Vulkan loader library
ii  libx11-xcb1:amd64                     2:1.6.12-1~mx19ahs+1                         amd64        Xlib/XCB interface library
ii  libxatracker2:amd64                   20.1.8-1~mx19ahs+1                           amd64        X acceleration library -- runtime
ii  linux-compiler-gcc-8-x86              5.8.14-1~mx19+2                              amd64        Compiler for Linux on x86 (meta-package)
ii  linux-kbuild-5.8                      5.8.14-1~mx19+2                              amd64        Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 5.8
ii  mesa-va-drivers:amd64                 20.1.8-1~mx19ahs+1                           amd64        Mesa VA-API video acceleration drivers
ii  mesa-vdpau-drivers:amd64              20.1.8-1~mx19ahs+1                           amd64        Mesa VDPAU video acceleration drivers
ii  mesa-vulkan-drivers:amd64             20.1.8-1~mx19ahs+1                           amd64        Mesa Vulkan graphics drivers
ii  mx19-archive-keyring                  2019.5.31                                    all          GnuPG archive keys of the MX-19 Linux archive

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 20:28:57 +0000

To encourage you, have a read of this thread: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3811

rolfie

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:56:11 +0000

Well the Renoir firmware is loaded so it must be the Mesa version.

MX Linux have backported the Mesa packages to a beowulf-compatible base so you could try those:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=146083

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (Klmjab) — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:27:38 +0000

@amanda:~$ sudo dmesg | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
[url]http://ix.io/2D1c[/url]

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 17:29:07 +0000

You have no hardware rendering at all. Perhaps blackhole is right about the kernel.

We can take a look at the kernel ring buffer, that might have some clues. Run this command and post the URL it returns:

# dmesg | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (Klmjab) — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 09:17:01 +0000

There's not libnvidia package installed

@amanda:~/Scripts$ dpkg -l | grep libnvidia
@amanda:~/Scripts$ aptitude search '?narrow(?installed, libnvidia)'
@amanda:~/Scripts$

Output of glxinfo -B command

@amanda:~$ cat glxinfo.txt 
name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: VMware, Inc. (0xffffffff)
    Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0, 128 bits) (0xffffffff)
    Version: 18.3.6
    Accelerated: no
    Video memory: 31486MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 3.3
    Max compat profile version: 3.1
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0, 128 bits)
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 3.1 Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL context flags: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00

In https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104928 there are two users that who recommend one to uninstall the nvidia libraries (this is not the case) and the other to update the libegl-mesa0 libraries with those from the experimental repository, this last option scares me a bit

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 19:01:27 +0000

Please use code tags rather than quote tags when posting terminal output, it greatly aids readability.

Klmjab wrote:

why Direct Rendering and 2D and 3D Accel is disabled?

Do you have any libnvidia-* packages installed? If so then remove them.

aptitude search '?narrow(?installed, libnvidia)'

Reference: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104928 ← that was the third result when I entered the X.Org log errors into a search engine.

This will provide a full rundown of hardware acceleration support on your machine:

glxinfo -B

The command is supplied by the mesa-utils package.

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (Klmjab) — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:07:51 +0000

Anyway, please mark the thread [SOLVED] to help others who encounter this problem.

Ok, i'll do. One more thing, anybody knows why Direct Rendering and 2D and 3D Accel is disabled?

[    11.298] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[    11.299] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[    11.300] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    11.300] 	compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.0.0
[    11.300] 	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
[    11.300] (II) Applying OutputClass "AMDgpu" to /dev/dri/card0
[    11.300] 	loading driver: amdgpu
[    11.300] (==) Matched amdgpu as autoconfigured driver 0
[    11.300] (==) Matched ati as autoconfigured driver 1
[    11.300] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 2
[    11.300] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 3
[    11.300] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 4
[    11.300] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[    11.300] (II) LoadModule: "amdgpu"
[    11.300] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/amdgpu_drv.so
[    11.301] (II) Module amdgpu: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    11.301] 	compiled for 1.20.3, module version = 18.1.99
[    11.301] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    11.301] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[    11.301] (II) LoadModule: "ati"
[    11.301] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
[    11.301] (II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    11.301] 	compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 19.0.1
[    11.301] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    11.301] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[    11.330] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[    11.330] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
[    11.330] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    11.330] 	compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.20.4
[    11.330] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    11.330] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[    11.330] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[    11.330] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[    11.331] (II) Module fbdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    11.331] 	compiled for 1.20.0, module version = 0.5.0
[    11.331] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    11.331] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[    11.331] (II) AMDGPU: Driver for AMD Radeon:
	All GPUs supported by the amdgpu kernel driver
[    11.331] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[    11.331] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
[    11.331] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[    11.349] (II) AMDGPU(0): [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
[    11.365] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[    11.365] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[    11.365] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
[    11.365] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
[    11.365] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfbdevhw.so
[    11.365] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    11.365] 	compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 0.0.2
[    11.365] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[    11.365] (II) AMDGPU(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
	"Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[    11.365] (==) AMDGPU(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[    11.365] (II) AMDGPU(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps)
[    11.365] (==) AMDGPU(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[    11.365] (==) AMDGPU(0): RGB weight 888
[    11.365] (II) AMDGPU(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
[    11.365] (--) AMDGPU(0): Chipset: "Unknown AMD Radeon GPU" (ChipID = 0x1636)
[    11.365] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[    11.365] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[    11.365] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
[    11.366] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    11.366] 	compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.0.0
[    11.366] 	ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[    11.366] (II) Loading sub module "dri2"
[    11.366] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[    11.366] (II) Module "dri2" already built-in
[    11.441] (II) Loading sub module "glamoregl"
[    11.441] (II) LoadModule: "glamoregl"
[    11.441] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so
[    11.444] (II) Module glamoregl: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    11.444] 	compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.0.1
[    11.444] 	ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[    11.456] (II) AMDGPU(0): Refusing to try glamor on llvmpipe
[    11.457] (EE) AMDGPU(0): glamor detected, failed to initialize EGL.
[    11.457] (WW) AMDGPU(0): amdgpu_glamor_pre_init returned FALSE, using ShadowFB
[    11.457] (II) Loading sub module "shadow"
[    11.457] (II) LoadModule: "shadow"
[    11.457] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libshadow.so
[    11.457] (II) Module shadow: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    11.457] 	compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.1.0
[    11.457] 	ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[    11.457] (II) AMDGPU(0): KMS Pageflipping: enabled
[    11.457] (II) AMDGPU(0): Output HDMI-A-0 has no monitor section
[    11.457] (II) AMDGPU(0): Output DVI-D-0 has no monitor section
[    11.458] (II) AMDGPU(0): Output DisplayPort-0 has no monitor section
[    11.463] (II) AMDGPU(0): EDID for output HDMI-A-0
...

[    11.464] (==) AMDGPU(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[    11.464] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
[    11.464] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[    11.464] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
[    11.464] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[    11.464] (II) Unloading modesetting
[    11.464] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
[    11.464] (II) Unloading fbdev
[    11.464] (II) UnloadSubModule: "fbdevhw"
[    11.464] (II) Unloading fbdevhw
[    11.464] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[    11.464] (II) Unloading vesa
[    11.466] (II) AMDGPU(0): Front buffer pitch: 7680 bytes
[    11.466] (==) AMDGPU(0): DRI3 disabled
[    11.466] (==) AMDGPU(0): Backing store enabled
[    11.466] (WW) AMDGPU(0): Direct rendering disabled
[    11.466] (II) AMDGPU(0): 2D and 3D acceleration disabled
[    11.466] (==) AMDGPU(0): DPMS enabled
[    11.466] (==) AMDGPU(0): Silken mouse enabled

golinux edited at HoaS's suggestion.

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 19:33:02 +0000

Klmjab wrote:

I have noticed that the performance in "glxgears" is identical to that obtained with the VESA driver.

Yeah, glxgears isn't a benchmark. Perhaps try https://benchmark.unigine.com/ instead?

Anyway, please mark the thread [SOLVED] to help others who encounter this problem.

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (Klmjab) — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 13:58:19 +0000

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Klmjab wrote:
native AMD RENOIR support is not yet included in the firmware
There are Renoir blobs in the backported firmware-amd-graphics package. Have you tried booting with the backported kernel & firmware but without the nomodeset kernel paramater? AMD graphics cards require KMS.
Or just grab the firmware from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke … ree/amdgpu and copy it to /lib/firmware/amdgpu/.

It's working!!!! thank you very much, I had not deleted the "nomodeset" parameter from / etc / default / grub. Thank you.

Although I have noticed that the performance in "glxgears" is identical to that obtained with the VESA driver.I don't understand, years ago, the performance was incredible superior with the proprietary driver...

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 12:40:06 +0000

If you copy the fimware manually, a manual update-initramfs -u -k all is mandatory.

rolfie

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 10:40:48 +0000

Klmjab wrote:

native AMD RENOIR support is not yet included in the firmware

There are Renoir blobs in the backported firmware-amd-graphics package. Have you tried booting with the backported kernel & firmware but without the nomodeset kernel paramater? AMD graphics cards require KMS.

Or just grab the firmware from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke … ree/amdgpu and copy it to /lib/firmware/amdgpu/.

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (blackhole) — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 10:28:31 +0000

I you get kernel source from kernel.org, you will get the firmware regardless.

Re: [SOLVED] Beowulf: Xserver native mode in AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G

dummy@example.com (Klmjab) — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 09:51:52 +0000

@Head_on_a_Stick, @Rolfie
No luck, i'll have to wait a while. Installed from backports :
firmware-amd-graphics
firmware-linux-nonfree
firmware-misc-nonfree
linux-compiler-gcc-8-x86
linux-headers-amd64
linux-image-amd64
firmware-realtek

Running in VESA Mode, native AMD RENOIR support is not yet included in the firmware
Thanks to both of you

@blackhole,
I think recompiling a new kernel does not solve the problem until we have the necessary additional packages(i.e firmware-amd-graphics, firmware-linux-nonfree...)
Thank you very much for your recommendations

Anyway, patience