The system is using llvmpipe instead of the AMD E1-6010 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics

[colibri8]

Hi everyone,

I’m using Lubuntu 24.04.2 LTS and noticed that the system is using llvmpipe as the OpenGL renderer instead of my AMD E1-6010 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics.

What should I do to ensure the system correctly uses the AMD GPU?

When I use the command in the terminal glxinfo | grep OpenGL renderer string , here is the result: OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7, 256 bits)

[colibri8]

I solved it.

I followed this guide: Getting rid of llvmpipe. Installing open source drivers correctly

Then I entered the command

glxinfo -B | grep "OpenGL renderer"

gives me this result

OpenGL renderer string: KABINI (radeonsi, , ACO, DRM 2.50, 6.8.0-55-generic)

Than I removed the legacy drivers because my Kabini APU (GCN 2.0) is supposed to use radeonsi or amdgpu for video acceleration, not r600.

sudo apt purge xserver-xorg-video-radeon
sudo apt autoremove

and force the use of radeonsi at the system level by creating a configuration file for VA-API

sudo nano /etc/environment

by adding this line: LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=radeonsi

I did Save (Ctrl+O) and Exit (Ctrl+X).

then i restarted the graphics systems

sudo systemctl restart display-manager

and rebooted the system.

I did a final check with the command

vainfo | grep -E "Driver version|VAProfile"

And the result was this

libva info: VA-API version 1.20.0
libva info: User environment variable requested driver 'radeonsi'
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_20
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 25.0.2 - kisak-mesa PPA for KABINI (radeonsi, , ACO, DRM 2.50, 6.8.0-55-generic)
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc

Now the configuration is correct and hardware acceleration is active.

To run a Windows game with Wine instead requires additional steps.

Check Vulkan drivers and drivers in the kernel.

I then forced the amdgpu driver into the kernel:
Modified /etc/default/grub to disable radeon and enable amdgpu, then updated GRUB and rebooted.

Configured Vulkan to use RADV:

And installed the Wine Dependency Hell Solver script.

Now the Windows game works as well.

After all these configurations now this is my output

OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon R2 Graphics (radeonsi, kabini, ACO, DRM 3.57, 6.8.0-56-generic)

Now everything works well.