[SOLVED]Lenovo Flex 5 & No Hardware Video Acceleration

[Jator]

Just picked up this nice lapptop off Amazon Prime Day. I've swapped out the HDD and installed Mint Linux 20.1 and applied all updates. However, I'm still getting the No Hardware Acceleration warning. I've read a few older posts about unsigned kernals and secure boot disabling, but before I try and figure all that out, wondering if anyone has a more update experience or reccomendation.

Here's my inxi:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-77-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Convertible System: LENOVO product: 81X2 v: IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 31 v: IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709 WIN serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: LENOVO v: EECN35WW date: 04/16/2021 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.9 Wh condition: 52.5/52.5 Wh (100%) volts: 11.5/11.6 
  model: LGC L19L3PD6 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 
  type: MCP arch: Zen rev: 1 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 28445 
  Speed: 1408 MHz min/max: 1400/2375 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1397 2: 1248 3: 1447 4: 2420 5: 1418 6: 1865 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A bus ID: 04:00.0 
  chip ID: 1002:1636 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: ati,fbdev 
  unloaded: modesetting,radeon,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~77Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.0 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.2.6 
  compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.1 
  chip ID: 1002:1637 
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A bus ID: 04:00.5 chip ID: 1022:15e2 
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-77-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: rtw_pci v: N/A port: 2000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:c822 
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 10.19 GiB (2.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT500P5SSD8 size: 465.76 GiB 
  speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: P4CR311 scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 456.96 GiB used: 10.18 GiB (2.2%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.9 C mobo: 37.0 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/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/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyssa main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:
  Processes: 236 Uptime: 24m Memory: 15.08 GiB used: 1.71 GiB (11.3%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 

[Hoser Rob]

According to this (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... Experiment) the kernel support for the 4000 card in the 5.4 kernel is 'experimental'.

I'd go into update manager > view kernels and install the newest one on the list. Then reboot. That's a pretty new machine.

[SMG]

You are getting that message because there are no graphics drivers installed. Renoir graphics need at least the 5.8 kernel in order for the amdgpu driver to install.

Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Renoir vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A bus ID: 04:00.0
chip ID: 1002:1636
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: ati,fbdev
unloaded: modesetting,radeon,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~77Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.0 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.2.6
compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes

Open Update Manager. Select View > Linux Kernels and click Continue. Make sure 5.8 or 5.11 is selected on the left panel and then click the top-most option on the right panel. An "Install" button will appear. Install the kernel and then reboot for it to become active.

Either 5.8 or 5.11 should install the necessary graphics driver. The driver is not available with the 5.4 kernel.

[Jator]

Thanks, no more warnings with the upgrade to 5.11. Yes, very new hardware, was trying to convert an old ChromeBook into a Mint Linux machine but too much headache trying to convert from ChromeOS, so picked this up on PrimeDay.

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System:
  Kernel: 5.11.0-22-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Convertible System: LENOVO product: 81X2 v: IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 31 v: IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709 WIN serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: LENOVO v: EECN35WW date: 04/16/2021 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 52.5 Wh condition: 52.5/52.5 Wh (100%) volts: 13.2/11.6 
  model: LGC L19L3PD6 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Full cycles: 2 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 
  type: MCP arch: Zen rev: 1 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 28447 
  Speed: 1794 MHz min/max: 1400/2375 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1397 2: 1397 3: 1397 4: 1397 5: 1397 6: 1397 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
  bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 1002:1636 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.40.0 5.11.0-22-generic LLVM 11.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.1 
  chip ID: 1002:1637 
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A bus ID: 04:00.5 chip ID: 1022:15e2 
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-22-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A port: 2000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:c822 
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 11.53 GiB (2.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT500P5SSD8 size: 465.76 GiB 
  speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: P4CR311 scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 456.96 GiB used: 11.52 GiB (2.5%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.1 C mobo: 40.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 37 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/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/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyssa main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:
  Processes: 240 Uptime: N/A Memory: 15.08 GiB used: 826.2 MiB (5.4%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38