Leap does not support AMD gpus
I do not know if this where I should start. I have used SuSE since the days of the Atlanta Linux Showcase. There developer ( He was referred to as the IDE guy) got SuSE to work on my laptop. He spent some time poking at it. He said go to the booth and buy a copy and I will have it working for the next release. Which he did. I have been running SuSE ever since, mostly on HP Business laptops. It has always worked fine until now. I have a HP 855 G7 which has an AMD cpu and a AMD gpu. I am running Leap 15.2 which still has a 5.3. ... kernel. I believe this also true for 15.3 . I know Leap is meant to be stable but that should not mean not working. The laptop display worked but the HDMI port was not usable. After much pain I added the kernel/stable repository which provided a much later kernel and I can now talk to HDMI displays. Also the physical buttons on the touchpad now work. The Leap install was painful since the installer had even more issues with the touchpad. This install was the first distribution which did not properly support current hardware. Maybe SuSE releases should state that they may not support current computers. Out of curiosity I also tried the Enterprise desktop product. It had more issues than Leap. Tumbleweed also works since it also has a later kernel
On 10/02/2021 22.16, Donald Leslie wrote:
I do not know if this where I should start.
Your subject is misleading: I have AMD hardware and I installed openSUSE out of the box. Very happy after using Nvida GPU for many years, much easier.
I have used SuSE since the days of the Atlanta Linux Showcase. There developer ( He was referred to as the IDE guy) got SuSE to work on my laptop. He spent some time poking at it. He said go to the booth and buy a copy and I will have it working for the next release. Which he did.
I have been running SuSE ever since, mostly on HP Business laptops. It has always worked fine until now. I have a HP 855 G7 which has an AMD cpu and a AMD gpu. I am running Leap 15.2 which still has a 5.3. ... kernel. I believe this also true for 15.3 .
I know Leap is meant to be stable but that should not mean not working. The laptop display worked but the HDMI port was not usable. After much pain I added the kernel/stable repository which provided a much later kernel and I can now talk to HDMI displays. Also the physical buttons on the touchpad now work.
The Leap install was painful since the installer had even more issues with the touchpad.
This install was the first distribution which did not properly support current hardware.
Maybe SuSE releases should state that they may not support current computers. Out of curiosity I also tried the Enterprise desktop product. It had more issues than Leap.
Tumbleweed also works since it also has a later kernel
Well, what you have to do is get involved with the 15.3 Beta and report your issues in Bugzilla. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:16:13 +0100, Donald Leslie wrote:
I do not know if this where I should start.
I have used SuSE since the days of the Atlanta Linux Showcase. There developer ( He was referred to as the IDE guy) got SuSE to work on my laptop. He spent some time poking at it. He said go to the booth and buy a copy and I will have it working for the next release. Which he did.
I have been running SuSE ever since, mostly on HP Business laptops. It has always worked fine until now. I have a HP 855 G7 which has an AMD cpu and a AMD gpu. I am running Leap 15.2 which still has a 5.3. ... kernel. I believe this also true for 15.3 .
FYI, 5.3 on Leap 15.3 kernel isn't really 5.3. Many driver components got tons of backports, and the graphics stack is equivalent with 5.9 and later kernel. If the AMDGPU graphics doesn't work Leap 15.3 kernel, let us know. The touchpad is a slightly different; I recently backported a few relevant things, but it might miss something else, as the devices like touchpad is often tied with pinctrl, I2C, GPIO and other lower layers in a complex manner nowadays. In anyway, Leap 15.3 should have received most of patches that are needed to run on the modern laptops. If something missing, just tell us, at best on Bugzilla. thanks, Takashi
On Thu, 2021-02-11 at 10:16 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:16:13 +0100, Donald Leslie wrote:
I do not know if this where I should start.
I have used SuSE since the days of the Atlanta Linux Showcase. There developer ( He was referred to as the IDE guy) got SuSE to work on my laptop. He spent some time poking at it. He said go to the booth and buy a copy and I will have it working for the next release. Which he did.
I have been running SuSE ever since, mostly on HP Business laptops. It has always worked fine until now. I have a HP 855 G7 which has an AMD cpu and a AMD gpu. I am running Leap 15.2 which still has a 5.3. ... kernel. I believe this also true for 15.3 .
FYI, 5.3 on Leap 15.3 kernel isn't really 5.3. Many driver components got tons of backports, and the graphics stack is equivalent with 5.9 and later kernel. If the AMDGPU graphics doesn't work Leap 15.3 kernel, let us know.
The touchpad is a slightly different; I recently backported a few relevant things, but it might miss something else, as the devices like touchpad is often tied with pinctrl, I2C, GPIO and other lower layers in a complex manner nowadays.
In anyway, Leap 15.3 should have received most of patches that are needed to run on the modern laptops. If something missing, just tell us, at best on Bugzilla. Yup if you feel something needs to be explicitly mentioned in release notes then please let us know as well!
thanks,
Takashi
-- Best regards Lubos Kocman Release Manager openSUSE Leap SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. Krizikova 148/34 tel: +49 173 5876850 186 00 Praha 8 http://www.suse.com Czech Republic
El mié, 10 feb 2021 a las 18:16, Donald Leslie (<donaldmleslie@gmail.com>) escribió:
I do not know if this where I should start.
I have used SuSE since the days of the Atlanta Linux Showcase. There developer ( He was referred to as the IDE guy) got SuSE to work on my laptop. He spent some time poking at it. He said go to the booth and buy a copy and I will have it working for the next release. Which he did.
I have been running SuSE ever since, mostly on HP Business laptops. It has always worked fine until now. I have a HP 855 G7 which has an AMD cpu and a AMD gpu. I am running Leap 15.2 which still has a 5.3. ... kernel. I believe this also true for 15.3 .
I know Leap is meant to be stable but that should not mean not working. The laptop display worked but the HDMI port was not usable. After much pain I added the kernel/stable repository which provided a much later kernel and I can now talk to HDMI displays. Also the physical buttons on the touchpad now work.
The Leap install was painful since the installer had even more issues with the touchpad.
This install was the first distribution which did not properly support current hardware.
Maybe SuSE releases should state that they may not support current computers. Out of curiosity I also tried the Enterprise desktop product. It had more issues than Leap.
Tumbleweed also works since it also has a later kernel
Since I use Tumbleweed for more than 3 years, I have never problems with my Nitro+ Radeon RX 580 and CPU FX 8320E. Regards, Juan -- USA LINUX OPENSUSE QUE ES SOFTWARE LIBRE, NO NECESITAS PIRATEAR NADA Y NI TE VAS A PREOCUPAR MAS POR LOS VIRUS Y SPYWARES: http://www.opensuse.org/es/ Puedes visitar mi blog en: http://jerbes.blogspot.com.ar/
Hello, On 2021-02-11 23:40, Juan Erbes wrote:
... I have never problems with my Nitro+ Radeon RX 580 and CPU FX 8320E.
Lucky you that you have a traditional RX 580. I bought a RX 590 (I thoght it is compatible to the RX 580) but the RX 590 needed some minor adjustments in the kernel so it didn't work at the time when I bought it. You see the first part of the kernel's boot messages (so the initial video mode works) but then screen gets black. The good news is that AMD fixes their things in upstream kernel in contrast to Nvidia as far as I know (I don't buy from Nvidia). Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 - 90409 Nuernberg - Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nuernberg) GF: Felix Imendoerffer
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:16 PM Donald Leslie <donaldmleslie@gmail.com> wrote:
I have used SuSE since the days of the Atlanta Linux Showcase. There developer ( He was referred to as the IDE guy) got SuSE to work on my laptop. He spent some time poking at it. He said go to the booth and buy a copy and I will have it working for the next release. Which he did.
I have been running SuSE ever since, mostly on HP Business laptops. It has always worked fine until now. I have a HP 855 G7 which has an AMD cpu and a AMD gpu. I am running Leap 15.2 which still has a 5.3. ... kernel. I believe this also true for 15.3 .
I like AMD as well, and wasnt there just a new linux kernel release from upstream of 5.11 or something which has kind of new all kinds of AMD support, both cpu and apu/gpu. Isnt AMD like some major or giant sponsor of opensuse even? Please bring in nice new kernels and amd support for 15.3. TY.
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