> It could be that 5.8 has a fixed amdgpu driver

Yeah you could have a point here, looks like 5.8 was pushed to 
qubes-linux-kernel 
<https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-linux-kernel/commit/51dbb9d3989f8c2840b2f3156d3fd38efa0d3e0f>
 
12 hours ago.

I'll try compile this and see how it goes.

On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 1:20:32 AM UTC+10 Chris Laprise wrote:

> On 8/11/20 1:13 AM, Dylanger Daly wrote:
> > > I'm going to experiment with moving a couple of my Qubes VMs over to 
> the
> > Ubuntu install under KVM (using VM Manager app).
> > 
> > Nice, I've had the same thought with Fedora Silverblue, but Qube's qvm- 
> > etc tools make everything so much easier.
> > 
> > > The Qubes 4.1 tree appears to have Xen 4.13 and Linux 5.7, currently.
> > 
> > Indeed R4.1 is using Xen 4.13.1 
> > <https://github.com/xen-project/xen/commits/RELEASE-4.13.1> last commit 
> > was back on May 7th 2020, I can't seem to see any AMD/Ryzen specific 
> > commits that are newer than this date, I was looking at cherry picking 
> > Xen commits related to AMD/Ryzen however I can't find any.
> > 
> > Any and all AMD Related commits I can find were made in 2019 and are 
> > included in the current Xen 4.13.1
> > 
> > So perhaps this is actually a dom0/Linux Kernel issue? Surely if it were 
> > Xen they'd have something committed by now?
> > On Monday, August 10, 2020 at 8:21:05 PM UTC+10 Chris Laprise wrote:
>
> I've experimented a bit with Ubuntu and some different kernels. I was 
> not able to get 5.7.0 kernel graphics to work at all (not even 
> vga/framebuffer), while 5.8.0 and 5.8.1 work beautifully and 'lshw' 
> confirms the amdgpu driver is being used to drive the display. The 
> default 5.4.0 kernel won't recognize the gpu but graphics do work 
> without acceleration.
>
> I don't know why graphics are broken in 5.7 (dmesg didn't show any 
> vga/amdgpu errors) when that is the first kernel to receive AMD Renoir 
> support. It could be that 5.8 has a fixed amdgpu driver, or that the 
> presence of power management drivers is required to properly drive the 
> Vega gpu.
>
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