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Problem with Graphics Card

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:46 am
by rmr
Upon issuing first upgrade, I am getting such warnings. I think that MX doesn't have repositories for this AMD graphics. And I don't have a clue what to do or if this is a problem.

Terminal output after first apt-get upgrade

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update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.6.0-2-amd64
cryptsetup: WARNING: The initramfs image may not contain cryptsetup binaries 
    nor crypto modules. If that's on purpose, you may want to uninstall the 
    'cryptsetup-initramfs' package in order to disable the cryptsetup initramfs 
    integration and avoid this warning.
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_gpu_info.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_gpu_info.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_ta.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_asd.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_sos.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_ta.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_asd.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_sos.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi14_ta.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/vega20_ta.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_rlc.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_mec2.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_mec.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_rlc.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_mec2.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_mec.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_me.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_pfp.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_ce.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_sdma.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_sdma1.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_sdma.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi10_mes.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_vcn.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_vcn.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_smc.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_smc.bin for module amdgpu
Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20200601~deb10u1) ...
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
0 added, 0 removed; done.
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d...
My system specifications as given by "quick-system-info-mx"

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System:    Host: mx Kernel: 5.6.0-2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.6.0-2-amd64 
           root=UUID=db286e13-3225-4407-b079-b6ff0c251340 ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-19.2_ahs_x64 patito feo May 31  2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15g-br0xx v: Type1ProductConfigId 
           serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 832B v: 23.78 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.65 date: 12/06/2019 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 33.7 Wh condition: 33.7/41.6 Wh (81%) volts: 16.6/14.6 
           model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-7200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake 
           family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: 9 microcode: D6 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 21599 
           Speed: 3100 MHz min/max: 400/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3100 2: 3100 3: 3100 
           4: 3100 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, 
           STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5916 
           Device-2: AMD Sun XT [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 / M430]
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:6660 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,modesetting,radeon unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
           resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.7 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9d71 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.6.0-2-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
           chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel 
           port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 8086:24fb 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 69.64 GiB (7.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 size: 931.51 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: RSM8 temp: 39 C scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 199.99 GiB size: 195.85 GiB (97.93%) used: 7.36 GiB (3.8%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 10 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mx-pkg.mirror.net.in/MX-Linux/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           2: deb http://mx-pkg.mirror.net.in/MX-Linux/mx/repo/ buster ahs
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main
Info:      Processes: 210 Uptime: 3h 35m Memory: 3.83 GiB used: 1.05 GiB (27.5%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36
Please provide some way to resolve this issue.

Re: Problem with Graphics Card

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:59 am
by timkb4cq
This is the firmware for the navi 12 and arcturus GPUs from AMD that are not out yet.
You are running a very new kernel which has the entries for that new firmware, so it can try loading them on amdgpu capable graphics cards, but the actual firmware hasn't been released.

So those aren't error messages, just informational warnings, useful for troubleshooting when those graphics cards become available.

Re: Problem with Graphics Card

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 9:01 am
by tascoast
Have you tried running this machine on a standard MX 64bit, rather than the AHS version first?

Re: Problem with Graphics Card

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 9:08 am
by rmr
tascoast wrote: Sat Jul 04, 2020 9:01 am Have you tried running this machine on a standard MX 64bit, rather than the AHS version first?
Hello tascoast,

I have got similar message on Standard x64 iso, which is the reason I installed AHS version with a hope that it might work. A google search with the above warning lines got me into an article which asks me to git clone a repo and use the firmware files. However I am not keen on doing that right now.

Re: Problem with Graphics Card

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 9:11 am
by rmr
timkb4cq wrote: Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:59 am This is the firmware for the navi 12 and arcturus GPUs from AMD that are not out yet.
You are running a very new kernel which has the entries for that new firmware, so it can try loading them on amdgpu capable graphics cards, but the actual firmware hasn't been released.

So those aren't error messages, just informational warnings, useful for troubleshooting when those graphics cards become available.
Hello timkb4cq,

So if I want to run graphics-card intensive tasks, can I do so or will I get into some bottlenecks?
I have tried with Standard (Non-AHS) system and I faced similar issue.

Re: Problem with Graphics Card

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 9:40 am
by timkb4cq
The new firmwares would not be loaded by your card if they were available since yours uses firmware that has been around for 4 years now.

I couldn't find your amd card listed among those that support the amdgpu driver so you are running the correct driver already. It should operate normally.

Re: Problem with Graphics Card

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 12:41 pm
by rmr
timkb4cq wrote: Sat Jul 04, 2020 9:40 am The new firmwares would not be loaded by your card if they were available since yours uses firmware that has been around for 4 years now.

I couldn't find your amd card listed among those that support the amdgpu driver so you are running the correct driver already. It should operate normally.
Thanks for the help timkb4cq.

According to Manufacturer, My PC has "AMD Radeon™ 520 Graphics (2 GB DDR3 dedicated)"

But when running Graphics stress test, Intel's Integrated graphics kicks in. Is there any way to force Dedicated graphics to do the job?
I had used GpuTest from www.geeks3d.com

Re: Problem with Graphics Card

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 12:57 pm
by timkb4cq
Read the hybrid graphics section here:
https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo

It also gives directions on how to try to get your card to use the amdgpu driver if you still have trouble.

Re: Problem with Graphics Card

Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 2:40 am
by rmr
Thanks for the help timkb4cq.

I am reading the guide and will take steps as told. I will be reverting back to this thread if the issue is solved or not.

Re: Problem with Graphics Card

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 1:52 pm
by alexjack
Related to this, I have a RX 6800 XT running MX19.4 AHS. Running sudo update-initramfs -u, I see:

W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_gpu_info.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_ta.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_asd.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_sos.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_rlc.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_mec2.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_mec.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_sdma.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_mes.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi10_mes.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_vcn.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/arcturus_smc.bin for module amdgpu

Should I go and get these firmware files?
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