MX 17 Repository: The Backported Debian Kernel Thread

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Re: MX 17 Repository: The Backported Debian Kernel Thread

#11 Post by sacules »

Indeed. However, I can't use VirtualBox as a host, I get the following error:

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Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall virtualbox-dkms package and load the kernel module by executing

'modprobe vboxdrv'

as root.

where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT.

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Re: MX 17 Repository: The Backported Debian Kernel Thread

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The 4.17 kernel requires an upgrade of Vbox to 5.2.12, which can be installed from the test repo. You'll also need to install the 4.17 linux-headers for your kernel.

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I installed the 4.17 kernel. I thought the amdgpu driver was installed by default with this kernel. However it was not on my system. I have forgotten how to enable the driver. Can you guide me?
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The amdgpu driver actually is in two parts; one is built into the kernel, and the other is xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu, which should already be installed. However, I don't have any hardware to test how the stock Debian xserver-driver works with the new kernel, but sacules' post seems to show that it works and has improved functionality. I'm not sure if you need to use a config file to switch from radeon to amdgpu, but kmathern would no doubt know. What are you showing with "inxi -G" now?

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Graphics:  Card-1: AMD Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics] driver: radeon v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD KAVERI (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.17.0-1-amd64 LLVM 3.9.1) 
           v: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.6 
I recall enabling it with an earlier kernel but forgot the steps.
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Do either of the two ways in the answers here seem familiar? https://askubuntu.com/questions/927601/ ... o-i-change

My preference would be to try blacklisting the radeon driver first.

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neither seem familiar. I tried the modprobe solution but got a failure to find the added line.

I thought there was another way to another way to blacklist the radeon driver without editing /etc/default grub,

Tried another method to blacklist the radeon driver. I edited /etc/modeprobe.d by adding a blacklist.conf file and adding "blacklist radeon" to that file. Tat had no effect.
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#18 Post by kmathern »

I haven't been able to get the amdgpu driver to work on my Kabini GPU with 4.16 or 4.17 kernels.

I'm familiar with the boot parameters mentioned in Stevo's askubuntu link (radeon.si_support=*, radeon.cik_support=*, amdgpu.si_support=*, amdgpu.cik_support=*), and they used to work okay for me with 4.13, 4.14 & 4.15 kernels but so far not 4.16 or 4.17.

A /etc/modprode.d file like the one shown below (I called it 'amdgpu_si_cik.conf') also used to work for me with 4.13, 4.14 & 4.15 kernels.

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##################################################################
# Uncomment lines below to enable optional amdgpu driver support #
# for Southern Islands (si) and Sea Islands (cik) GPUs with 4.13 #
# series kernels and higher.                                     #
#                                                                #
# GCN generation 1 / Southern Islands chipsets:                  #
# CAPE VERDE, PITCAIRN, TAHITI, OLAND, HAINAN                    #
#                                                                #
# GCN generation 2 / Sea Islands chipsets:                       #
# BONAIRE, KABINI, KAVERI, HAWAII, MULLINS                       #
##################################################################

#options radeon si_support=0 cik_support=0
#options amdgpu si_support=1 cik_support=1

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Re: MX 17 Repository: The Backported Debian Kernel Thread

#19 Post by sacules »

Stevo wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 1:09 am The 4.17 kernel requires an upgrade of Vbox to 5.2.12, which can be installed from the test repo. You'll also need to install the 4.17 linux-headers for your kernel.
Already had the headers, will try upgrading Vbox.
richb wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:07 pm

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Graphics:  Card-1: AMD Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics] driver: radeon v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD KAVERI (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.17.0-1-amd64 LLVM 3.9.1) 
           v: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.6 
I recall enabling it with an earlier kernel but forgot the steps.
I had a similar issue some months ago and solved it by upgrading the mesa drivers to the last version, which you can find in the test repos.

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Re: MX 17 Repository: The Backported Debian Kernel Thread

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sacules wrote: Fri Jun 15, 2018 12:42 pm
Stevo wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 1:09 am The 4.17 kernel requires an upgrade of Vbox to 5.2.12, which can be installed from the test repo. You'll also need to install the 4.17 linux-headers for your kernel.
Already had the headers, will try upgrading Vbox.
richb wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:07 pm

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Graphics:  Card-1: AMD Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics] driver: radeon v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD KAVERI (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.17.0-1-amd64 LLVM 3.9.1) 
           v: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.6 
I recall enabling it with an earlier kernel but forgot the steps.
I had a similar issue some months ago and solved it by upgrading the mesa drivers to the last version, which you can find in the test repos.
Stretch-backports has a newer mesa, or we currently have 18.0.4 in a separate experimental repo. I was a bit leery of having it in the test repo, since there are some that upgrade everything from there in one fell swoop.

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