Sam Varghese wrote: > > On Fri, February 22, 2019 7:46 am, Dan Ritter wrote: > > What are you concerned about? > > Thanks for your response, Dan. > > I have seen some older reports about kernel issues and crashes. Hence my > concern.
I haven't seen any while running Stretch or later. > I presume that the built-in graphics system can be disabled from the BIOS > (or UEFI) and a stock standard graphics card used instead. Would I be > correct in assuming that? For desktops, yes. My son is using a Ryzen 2300U laptop, and the stretch-backports amdgpu X11 system works well for him. His last remaining issue is that the touchscreen isn't working, which is not a Ryzen issue. Ryzen (and ThreadRipper)_chips without a G or U suffix have no built-in graphics anyway, so it's not an issue unless you're buying one of those. -dsr-