Drivers & Software

[unskilledbuild]

I'm searching, and I simply cannot find Linux drivers for my laptop.

I have an MSI Alpha 15 with the 5500m, and I'm running Pop!_OS. I was running Linux Mint with the same issue.

I would love to run games on it, but I would settle for dual monitor support ATM.

It's hard to be as productive when you only have the laptop screen.

Anyway does anyone know how to install proprietary drivers? Open source drivers?

Thanks.

[erikur]

Can't you use the 5500m by passing DRI_PRIME=1 when starting the game?

What does xrandr output if you run it with --listproviders ?
xrandr --listproviders

What is the output of:

DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"

[karelvonbarel]

I know it's been a while, but I've got similar situation with MSI Bravo 17 A4DDR laptop.

I was not able to make the HDMI output work on Debian/testing.

My current kernel version is: `5.9.0-rc5-2009181220` and related kernel parameters are `.... amdgpu.runpm=0 amdgpu.exp_hw_support=1 amdgpu.si_support=1 amdgpu.cik_support=1`

I tried several kernels 5.7... - 5.9-rc4,5,6,... with free amdgpu driver and proprietary amdgpu-pro-20.30-1109583-ubuntu-20.04 but no luck unfortunately.

I'd really appreciate any hint how to make the dual monitors setup work on laptop.

Thanks in advance.

`xrandr --listproviders` says:

```

Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x54 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 1 associated providers: 0 name:Unknown AMD Radeon GPU @ pci:0000:07:00.0
Provider 1: id: 0x84 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 5 outputs: 1 associated providers: 0 name:Radeon RX 5500M @ pci:0000:03:00.0

```

Output of the `DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"` is:

```

OpenGL renderer string: Radeon RX 5500M (NAVI14, DRM 3.39.0, 5.9.0-rc5-2009181220, LLVM 10.0.0)

```

[EevanW]

I have similar problem.
My output:

➜ ~ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x54 cap: 0x9, Source Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 1 associated providers: 1 name:Unknown AMD Radeon GPU @ pci:0000:08:00.0
Provider 1: id: 0x84 cap: 0x6, Sink Output, Source Offload crtcs: 5 outputs: 1 associated providers: 1 name:Radeon RX 5500M @ pci:0000:03:00.0

➜ ~ DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon RX 5500M (NAVI14, DRM 3.43.0, 5.11.0-46-generic, LLVM 12.0.1)

But 5500M haven't VGA output interface

➜  ~ lspci | grep VGA
08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir (rev c6)

➜  ~ lspci | grep Display                        
03:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 14 [Radeon RX 5500/5500M / Pro 5500M] (rev c1)

➜  ~ xrandr          
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 5760 x 2160, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP connected 1920x1080+0+1080 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
   1920x1080    120.11 +  48.08* 
   ...
   ...
HDMI-A-1-0 connected primary 3840x2160+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 600mm x 340mm
   3840x2160     30.00*+  25.00    24.00    29.97    23.98  
   2560x1440     59.95  
   ...
   ...