Ok, here’s the thing:
No matter the system, EOS, Manjo, Sparky (Debian Sid), everything works great for a couple days, then one fine day I get weird messages (missing IRQ handler?) during startup but system works fine, no probs. Couple days later small probs do occure, like calendar gone from task bar, refuses to show up again, bookmarks not showing, lots of wonky things, can’t save stuff …
That was in Manjaro.
Then tried Sparky, was happy hippo. After, like 2 weeks the same shit started happening again.
Switched operations over to a Lenovo SFF ThinkCentre - NO PROBLEMS!!!
EOS on Clevo laptop - NO PROBLEMS!!!
Lenny and lappy both Intel machines.
Friend tells me the B550 chipset doesn’t work with Linux. First I thought it’s my Gigabyte mobo and maybe I should switch to Asus. But friend tells me they’re all using the same AMD chipset.
What are your experiences with AMD/Linux? Is there anything I can do to remedy the situation?
In general AMD works very well on Linux. That is not to say that there might be specific issues with that particular mainboard or chipset (I have used AMD for years now without any major issues, but I never had a mainboard with a B550 chipset).
Did you try upgrading the BIOS/UEFI of your mainboard yet?
This sounds like a hardware issue, and not in the ‘amd incompatibility’ way, more like corrupted RAM, storage or maybe a faulty motherboard kind of way.
I’m on AMD Ryzen 6900hx. besides a few tpm issues (stutters caused by tpm, damn garbage spyware chips) that were fixed i believe around kernel 6.4, it’s been flawless. the iGPU as well.
I have been distro-hopping for the past two years on an MSI B550 with a Ryzen 5600x with zero compatibility issues, and that is across probably 30+ different distributions whether they were Arch, Fedora, SUSE, or Debian based.
I did a quick google search, and on the linux mint forums and askubuntu people are saying the solution is a BIOS update as this was a problem specifically with B550, and one person asking about it also had a gigabyte board.
Machine was at Gigabyte workshop, they just said I must never use Linux. No probs with Windows. I assume they had updated the BIOS but you can never be sure with these people.
Gonna try now to update the BIOS. No idea how to but gonna find out soon I guess.
From experience I can recommended Asrock boards for AMD on Linux. They generally work well and even fix Linux specific issues in their BIOS updates occasionally instead of telling you to just use Windows.
Gigabyte on the other hand is, well just “a bit shit in general”, for a lack of better terminology.
Wonky donky for the first updates of the firmware.. and still some wonkiness like it removes nvram on every firmware update.. and fan settings GUI part is the most wonky interface you can think of. Each time i want to change something there i am confused like someone never opens Bios interface before..
But It’s what a knowledge guy said once:
No, seriously, they are all bad. There isn’t a single consistently reliable and reputable one. Unfortunately, you have to buy one of them.
I’m running a B550 chipset on MSI motherboard and 3700X Ryzen 7 cpu. No problems ever. Updated to latest bios. . . still no problems. No problems what so ever. Everything works.
I used a Gigabyte/Intel system for the past couple of years initially with ArcoLinux then EOS, never had a problem. My latest build is ASRock/AMD B650 and has run EOS without fault since day one.
As others have mentioned, you may have a fault somewhere rather than an AMD/Linux incompatibility. I remember one issue I had in a build where the RAM needed a bit more voltage (+0.2v?) than default to be stable. Once I figured this out all was sweet.
for Gigabyte workshop saying “never use Linux”
