Debian 12 issues on AMD AI

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Haven’t seen a post about upgrading to the new AI mainboards for Debian 12 yet so figured I would post my results from trying a drop-in replacement from the 7040 board.

  • Prep work
    • Added Bookworm backports repo
    • Installed kernel 6.12.12
  • Results
    • UEFI did not find bootable device
      • Needed to hit F3 during boot to manually select EFI file, then when booted to Debian run sudo install-grub to add boot entry to UEFI
    • Will not boot to graphical login
      • TTY1 (or is it 0?) will show the list of services starting like normal but will never progress past that to the login screen. I can switch to other TTY’s to login on the cli, I have network connection, etc but cannot get a desktop environment to start
      • startx errors out saying no screens found
      • Ended up resolving this by installing firmware-amd-graphics from Trixie’s repo
        • I really don’t like grabbing a random package out of the testing repo to solve this. I will likely just upgrade to Trixie in the near future.

I’ll post any other quirks here as I encounter them. Hopefully this saves someone some headache at least.

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First update:

Installing the gpu drivers from Trixie got me into the DE, but the compositor wasn’t working properly (screen tearing, no animations in KDE).

I ended up just doing the full upgrade to Trixie and so far it’s working for the most part. Still being tempermental about going into hibernation but that’s not a new issue.