Amdgpu won't load

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My laptop is old and have 2 GPU. Integrated Intel® HD Graphics 5500 while Dedicated is AMD R5 M300. Dedicated always shown in the system as llvmpipe for some reason. I found out amdgpu didn’t load and instead using radeon. So, I tried to do what I found there like using grub and now the drivers from AMD is missing.

Here is the result of inxi -G:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Sun XT [Radeon HD
8670A/8670M/8690M / R5 M330 M430 Radeon 520 Mobile] driver: N/A
Device-3: IMC Networks Lenovo EasyCamera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,swrast
platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.7
renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2)
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 drivers: intel,llvmpipe surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

This is the result of my lsmod | grep amdgpu:
amdgpu 20615168 0
amdxcp 12288 1 amdgpu
gpu_sched 65536 1 amdgpu
drm_panel_backlight_quirks 12288 1 amdgpu
drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 amdgpu
drm_buddy 32768 2 amdgpu,i915
ttm 135168 3 amdgpu,drm_ttm_helper,i915
drm_exec 12288 1 amdgpu
drm_suballoc_helper 20480 1 amdgpu
i2c_algo_bit 20480 2 amdgpu,i915
drm_display_helper 311296 2 amdgpu,i915
cec 102400 3 drm_display_helper,amdgpu,i915
video 81920 3 amdgpu,ideapad_laptop,i915

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I am not entirely sure, so take that with a grain of salt, but AFAIK, that card is not officially supported by amdgpu as it is very, very old (GCN 1).

Support for GCN 1.x can be enabled using the following kernel parameters: radeon.si_support=0 radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1 amdgpu.cik_support=1, but AFAIK, it is still experimental and likely will not work well.

The radeon driver is the correct driver for your card.

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really? but, they show as llvmpipe in ‘About this System’

So, I can do nothing about it?

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Alright, your suggestion actually work and it’s not llvmpipe anymore. Many thanks, Ngi!

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