Does anyone here use Debian 13 with the new AMD RDNA 4 architecture 9000 series GPU and cpu. Is it supported out of the box or requires backporting kernel and firmware. Stable or testing.
>>107047358It should work properly with 6.16 kernel and Mesa version of that period (can't remember the exact version and I'm tabletposting).T. Pop-OS! 9070 user
>>107047358>Debian 13 is on 6.12 iircFor optimal support of the AMD RX 9070 (non-XT) on Linux, a kernel version of at least 6.12 is required, with Linux 6.13 or newer recommended for the best performance and stability. The Linux 6.14 kernel is considered even better suited for the RX 9070 series. While the RX 9070 is a standard RDNA4 card and should boot with any kernel version 6.8 or higher, using a more recent kernel like 6.13 or 6.14 is advised to fully utilize the hardware.
>>107047744I see and yes you are right it's on 6.12 LTS . Would a better option be to run Debian testing version or try backport? I'm a novice Linux user. I have used arch but don't fancy having to update frequently and am building a new PC. Ubuntu is stable release but I dislike canonicals recent moves. I think Debian testing is best suited to my use case.
>>107047799If you use Debian, stick with stable, don't listen to others. Backports for hardware enablement is normal. But I think if you are a new Linux user, you shouldnt have to fuck around with that stuff.
>>107047799>>107047821a lot of people do run testing but if a rolling distro is what you want, Arch is a better choice for that. Debian testing is a development version with no particular promises, things can remain broken for arbitrary amounts of time, and it stops rolling when they freeze for a release.If you want Debian but with support for your fancy new GPU just grab a current kernel and maybe mesa from backports and leave the rest as-is
>>107047799>Debian if your hardware is fully supported on stable.>Fedora if you have more recent hardware.>Mint is okay, but with full AMD hardware, you should go with KDE/GNOME with a recent kernel on Wayland.
>>107047862Sounds good, will look into backporting. Good thing about LTS is if I get it working once, it's too until the next release. >>107047868I did consider mint but Im going to use Sway (Wayland) rather than a DE, I use i3 currently.
>>107047955it's an extra repo that you add in sources.list. then you apt update and there's some special apt command you have to use to say "pull this from backports instead of from main". I haven't been a Debian guy for a long time but I'm sure the instructions are still somewhere on their site
>>107048007Thanks for the help
