New motherboard

Using XFCE. I just added a new motherboard to my desktop. It’s a GigaByte B450M DS3H V2 with an AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega 8 graphics. I booted my existing Leap 15.4 installation thinking I would have to re-install it, but it started and works just fine. The board came with a DVD which did not boot and only had Windows software on it. I stuck my Windows drive in the swap bay, booted it and opened the DVD allowing it to install AMD drivers That took about 15 minutes. Now I’m wondering if it took that much time to update the drivers under Windows, how did Leap deal with the new graphics? Do I need to re-install Leap to benefit from the improved graphics?

Suggestions will be appreciated.

Hi
It should be fine, you can check the driver in use (likely amdgpu) via;


/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EA3 "VGA|Display|3D"

or

inxi -Gxxz

Thanks for the speedy response and reassurance.

lspci that way is only reporting the kernel driver in use. inxi -Gz reports kernel, dri and display drivers. inxi -Gaz reports all drivers involving the GPU(s).

What happened to the old motherboard?

And, not only, the new graphics – also the new CPU …

  • Provided that, the following packages were installed:

[INDENT=2]kernel-firmware-amdgpu
ucode-amd
xf86-video-amdgpu
[/INDENT]

the drivers and microcode for the Ryzen GPUs will be picked up by the Kernel at boot time.

The directories where the drivers and microcode are located are:

  • /lib/firmware/amdgpu/
  • /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/
  • /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/

[HR][/HR]This machine:Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.4
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.14.21-150400.24.28-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics
Memory: 29.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon™ Vega 11 Graphics

I kept it as a usable backup. It’s a CPU integrated board, a little on the slow side, but the big problem is that it only has two SATA connections and will not boot from a HD connected via an expansion board. It was a gift.