Like the more recent Intel open source video hardware, and almost all wi-fi devices nowadays, even though the drivers are open, they still require closed source microcode firmware be loaded into the device by the kernel when it initializes them. For AMD, they are in the firmware-amd-graphics package we have installed by default.Bamber wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 6:40 amI always thought of it as Kernel driver and Mesa. Could you elaborate on the non-free firmware you mention?Stevo wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:02 am The AMD video driver stack is made up of several different parts: the kernel, non-free firmware that it needs, and a Mesa version that recognizes and supports it.
https://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-amd-graphics
There is also a relatively simple procedure to pull and install the latest firmware from the Linux kernel development repositories.
