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How good is support for Radeon RX 9070 XT?
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2025 11:53 pm
by MaximB
I bought a new Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT NITRO+ OC 16GB GDDR6 videocard,
How good is MX Linux support and features available for this card?
Should I go with MX-23.6_x64 “ahs” or a rolling arch based distro like CachyOS?
Re: How good is support for Radeon RX 9070 XT?
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:03 am
by Stevo
According to Phoronix, it should be supported in MX 23 AHS:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-radeon-rx9070-linux
Re: How good is support for Radeon RX 9070 XT?
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:45 am
by siamhie
+1
Install the 6.12 kernel and the Mesa 25+ package. Both available with the AHS repo.
Re: How good is support for Radeon RX 9070 XT?
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2025 2:40 am
by Stevo
siamhie wrote: Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:45 am
+1
Install the 6.12 kernel and the Mesa 25+ package. Both available with the AHS repo.
Plus firmware-amd-graphics from AHS.
Re: How good is support for Radeon RX 9070 XT?
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2025 11:09 am
by siamhie
Stevo wrote: Fri Sep 12, 2025 2:40 am
siamhie wrote: Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:45 am
+1
Install the 6.12 kernel and the Mesa 25+ package. Both available with the AHS repo.
Plus firmware-amd-graphics from AHS.
Isn't that already installed?
I know that I have firmware-intel-graphics and firmware-nvidia-graphics installed despite not having an Intel or Nvidia card in my machine.
Re: How good is support for Radeon RX 9070 XT?
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2025 12:09 pm
by Stevo
Yes, but I thought you were advising the selective installation of the newer kernel and Mesa from AHS on stock Bookworm MX. The stock AMD firmware will not support the newer hardware.
Of course, if you meant use the full AHS ISO, all the goodies come preinstalled, or as standard updates.
Re: How good is support for Radeon RX 9070 XT?
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2025 2:17 pm
by siamhie
Stevo wrote: Fri Sep 12, 2025 12:09 pm
Yes, but I thought you were advising the selective installation of the newer kernel and Mesa from AHS on stock Bookworm MX. The stock AMD firmware will not support the newer hardware.
Of course, if you meant use the full AHS ISO, all the goodies come preinstalled, or as standard updates.
Yes, I was assuming the OP was going to be running the AHS version.
KDE comes with the 6.1 kernel and I've forgotten which kernel the XFCE AHS version comes with.
Re: How good is support for Radeon RX 9070 XT?
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 12:18 am
by Stevo
OK, regardless of desktop, any version with the AHS repos will have our latest firmware and Mesa 25+
Speaking of kernels, I just found out our current AHS nvidia-driver will build on a 6.16 kernel, as will virtualbox 7.1.12 in the test repo. Probably our latest updated legacy drivers, too.