How to fix issues with the AMD GPU driver on Debian
I have a PC running Debian with an AMD CPU and GPU. Unfortunately, the AMD GPU driver doesn’t work well with Debian at the moment. I gathered many issues in this post for myself, and it may be useful for someone else, too.
Currently, my system is Debian 13 with the 6.12.43+deb13-amd64 kernel. To install AMDGPU driver you need to follow the official AMD documentation.
I use a build of the AMDGPU driver 6.4.3 for Ubuntu Noble that is also compatible with Debian 13 (Trixie):
wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.4.3/ubuntu/noble/amdgpu-install_6.4.60403-1_all.deb
sudo apt install ./amdgpu-install_6.4.60403-1_all.deb
sudo apt update
sudo apt install "linux-headers-$(uname -r)"
sudo apt install amdgpu-dkms
However, the installation did not finish correctly. Next, I will show you how to fix this.
To fix error you need to do the following steps:
1. Create the correct directory for the kernel headers:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/src/ofa_kernel/x86_64/
sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r) /usr/src/ofa_kernel/x86_64/$(uname -r)
2. Change the current kernel version for AMDGPU driver:
uname -r | sudo tee /var/tmp/amdgpu-dkms-kernels
3. Build the AMDGPU driver for the current kernel:
export SRCARCH=x86
sudo dpkg-reconfigure amdgpu-dkms
Note that the SRCARCH=x86 variable fixes the issue.
In addition, you can change its performance profile. To do this for a low performance profile:
cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/30-amdgpu-low-power.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="pci", DRIVER=="amdgpu", ATTR{power_dpm_force_performance_level}="low"
EOF
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