Video Drivers not Recognized

[jrr4142]

I am fairly new to the world of Linux. I have built a new PC with a Gigabyte B550M MB and a AMD Ryzen 5600G Processor. Running Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon OS.
It is not recognizing the drivers for the processor which has just recently became available on the market. This is causing additional problems with applications that need the accelerated video be available. AMD website for the Ryzen processors state that it is compatible with Unbuntu OS's. Any suggestions for help would be appreciated. AMD offered no solution.

[roblm]

You have very new hardware. The AMD Ryzen 5600G processor was launched in April of this year. This article has info on getting it to work in Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... 600g&num=1

You will need to install the 5.11 kernel in the Update Manager > View > Linux Kernels.

Then use these commands to install the Oibaf PPA to get the newest version of mesa, which is 21.3.

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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
apt-get update

Then open the Update Manager and install the mesa update.

That PPA has caused problems for some users, so be sure to create a Timeshift snapshot before adding it.

The other safer alternative to get newer mesa drivers is the Kisak PPA but it only has mesa version 21.2 at this time.

After rebooting, use this command in the Terminal to get more info on your system: inxi -Fxrz
In the Menu at the top, select Edit > Select All and then Edit > Copy. Open the Mint Forum reply window and select </> at the top. Press Ctrl+V to paste the copied lines into a code display window.

[jrr4142]

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jrr@jrr-B550M-DS3H:~$ inxi -Fxrz
System:
  Kernel: 5.11.0-34-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.5 Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma 
  base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B550M DS3H v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: B550M DS3H v: x.x serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F13 date: 07/08/2021 
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech G603 Wireless Gaming Mouse 
  charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 
  type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 93421 
  Speed: 1413 MHz min/max: 1400/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1584 2: 1413 
  3: 1441 4: 1413 5: 1413 6: 1453 7: 1687 8: 1413 9: 1582 10: 1396 11: 1413 
  12: 1696 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 05:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.40.0 5.11.0-34-generic LLVM 12.0.1) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.0-devel (git-6f9f350 2021-09-19 focal-oibaf-ppa) 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 05:00.1 
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 05:00.6 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-34-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 8.87 TiB used: 624.27 GiB (6.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB 
  size: 465.76 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB 
  ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB 
  ID-4: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD Elements 25A3 
  size: 7.28 TiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 915.40 GiB used: 22.18 GiB (2.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured? 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com uma 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
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oibaf-graphics-drivers-focal.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/oibaf/graphics-drivers/ubuntu focal main
Info:
  Processes: 289 Uptime: 36m Memory: 30.82 GiB used: 2.64 GiB (8.6%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 
  inxi: 3.0.38 
jrr@jrr-B550M-DS3H:~$ 

[jrr4142]

Thanks for The assistance. Every thing seems to be working fine.

[jghosh2021]

Thanks for this post. I had a similar issue with amdgpu module not being loaded at boot. Installing amdgpu-pro-20.45-1188099-ubuntu-20.04.tar.xz from amd's website did not help either but kernel update to 5.11.0-37 helped. The kernel update also resolved suspend and resume issues with default fbdev video module. I'm using ryzen 5 5600g with Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite Wifi Rev1.0. Few things like sensors, audio over HDMI (others have reported these as well) still don't work on the MB. I read that kernel update 5.15 should resolved the APU sensor reading issue. Things that work out of the box on Uma - Bluetooth, Network (both wired and wifi), SATA, Display (fbdev), USB.