During my experiments I had 3D acceleration working on my arc a750, no patches to mesa were required to make it work. If you wanted ray tracing working, that required a small patch to enable it on non-x86 and it was unstable (caused card to lock up)
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OK. MESA 25.x broke building . I succeed on MESA 24.08 …
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yes there is 3D acceleration
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Just wanted to post that I’ve also been messing with a few Intel cards (including A310, A750, B580, and B50) on Raspberry Pi, which runs into similar limitations. Hopefully the i915/Xe driver in the kernel can get the patch necessary for RISC-V and Arm support (see discussion here: Add Intel Arc A750 · Issue #510 · geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices · GitHub).
For some of the cards, I had to compile a newer version of Mesa, for others, the stock version that ships on Pi OS 13 (Trixie) worked. Haven’t messed with it at all on Ubuntu yet though. Would like to compare performance and experience on my Ampere system!
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Have been watching, curious to see what you do with it!
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Has anyone tried running LLMs on B-series GPUs?
I’ve just received my B50 and after some setbacks managed to pass it into a NixOS 25.11 VM from a NixOS 25.11 Incus host ( both have kernel 6.12.70 ) on ALTRAD8UD. But then I hit a brick wall as every related NixOS package (intel-compute-runtime in particular ) refuses to install, throwing the unsupported architecture error. Is it like that in every distro or it’s possible to make it work at least in some way ( with or without Ollama )?
P.S. @q66 @ara does it make sense to try Chimera Linux for LLMs?
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