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Help...First time installing a Radeon on Linux (7800 XT) (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Hi guys! Brand new PC...And I'm trying to install its brand new 7800XT. I've chosen KDE Neon, as it was my previous OS, and I've grown to like it. I'd like to stick with it if possible...I'm writing this preamble, because when I try to run amdgpu-install from the AMD downloads page, all I get is:

Unsupported OS: /etc/os-release ID 'neon'

So...what can I do? Neon is mostly Ubuntu 22.04 to most effects. Kernel is 6.2.0-36-generic.

Thanks!

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

IIRC, the drivers I needed were already in base Debian.

Is it not working out-of-box on your distro?

[–] damolima@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago

I also have a 7800 XT and use Debian. I had to download firmware from git.kernel.org, as not even the package in unstable is new enough: stable has 2023-02-10, unstable currently has 2023-05-15, while 7800 XT (and 7700 XT) needs 2023-08-04 or newer At least bookworm-backports has a new enough kernel now. (6.5, IIRC 6.4 is the minimum.)

But to get ROCm working, I ended up adding AMD repositories and using its drivers with the 6.1 kernel from stable.