#1 2020-09-06 09:17:00

Strandreiter

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Functional with AMD Ryzen Pro 4650U

Hi Forum,

I just saw an amazing review on youtube and that me curious enough to try Lithium. What’s holding me back at the moment is the fact that I just bought a new Thinkpad T14 with a Ryzen pro 4650U recently.
What do you think, will that work? Bunsenlabs with that relatively new processor?
Would love to know your opinion before I erase my arch install ?

Strandreiter

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Re: Functional with AMD Ryzen Pro 4650U

OK, I can tell you: It does not work "out of the box", you cannot even start the Live Version. LightDM is not being loaded :-(
Why don't you base the whole system on arch rather than Debian? ;-)

Have a nice day, Strandreiter

damo

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Re: Functional with AMD Ryzen Pro 4650U

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Why don't you base the whole system on arch rather than Debian? ;-)
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Because the distro philosophy is to base it on Debian Stable. If you want cutting-edge then you could do a basic install of eg Debian Sid and install the bunsen meta packages. Followed by the necessary tweaks.

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Re: Functional with AMD Ryzen Pro 4650U

I have a Ryzen based desktop (CPU has builtin graphics) and I've managed to install Lithium on it by using the text based installer. After installation ran bl-welcome to add the backports repo then was able to update kernel to 5.4 which supported the Ryzen graphics.

A good trick to run the Live is to disable builtin graphics via the BIOS and add a regular AMD or nVidia GPU first.

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