Arc GPU's vs Debian

[Remotepall]

If I'm better to burn everything to the ground, let me know. I want a final solution that is set and forget, but also I don't want to muck around finding a golden forum thread or git with some driver that is perfect. I went with arc because documentation said it was good.  

I have a new PC purchased specifically for JF. LINK
I downloaded debian fresh, Installed direct on to PC. 
Installed JF using GUIDE via curl. 
From here I can't provide links because I just started installing everything. 
I keep seeing that I need a kernal 6.10. Debian only has kernal 6.1. Is it a typo? Are people loading some hacky code to get their GPU's running? None of this is covered in any documentation. 

/dev/ has no /dri/ folder

Code:

shannon@Eragon:~$ sudo dmesg | grep -i intel
[    5.419128] intel_rapl_common: Found RAPL domain package
[    5.419130] intel_rapl_common: Found RAPL domain core

Code:

shannon@Eragon:~$ lsmod | grep i915
i915                3055616  0
drm_buddy              20480  1 i915
drm_display_helper    184320  1 i915
cec                    61440  2 drm_display_helper,i915
ttm                    94208  1 i915
drm_kms_helper        212992  2 drm_display_helper,i915
i2c_algo_bit          16384  1 i915
drm                  614400  5 drm_kms_helper,drm_display_helper,drm_buddy,i915,ttm
video                  65536  1 i915

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne Root Complex
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne IOMMU
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:02.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus
00:08.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 51)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Cezanne Data Fabric; Function 7
01:00.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 400 Series Chipset USB 3.1 xHCI Compliant Host Controller (rev 01)
01:00.1 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 400 Series Chipset SATA Controller (rev 01)
01:00.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 400 Series Chipset PCIe Bridge (rev 01)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 400 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 01)
02:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 400 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 01)
02:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 400 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 01)
02:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 400 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 01)
02:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 400 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 01)
02:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 400 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
06:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
09:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Shenzhen Longsys Electronics Co., Ltd. Lexar NM790 NVME SSD (DRAM-less) (rev 01)
0a:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Zeppelin/Raven/Raven2 PCIe Dummy Function (rev c9)
0a:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio Controller
0a:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Platform Security Processor
0a:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
0a:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1
0a:00.6 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h/19h HD Audio Controller
0b:00.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 81)
0b:00.1 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 81)
shannon@Eragon:~$

[toytown]

I believe it was kernel 6.2 that was recommended for Intel Arc GPUs as that's when it was given official support. It is true that Debian 12 does only come with kernel 6.1, however updating the kernel is really easy. I'm currently using 6.7.9 and my Arc card has been rock solid.

[TheDreadPirate]

Intel Arc requires kernel 6.2 and newer. Debian 12 is on 6.1 if you don't install a back-ported kernel. Debian has a "backports" repo to make installing a back ported kernel easier. But you will also need to manually acquire and install newer firmware than what is provided by Debian to make Arc GPUs function.

If you haven't sunken too much time into this setup and you aren't tied to Debian, I'd recommend switching to Ubuntu 24.04. It has a new enough kernel out of the box and has new enough firmware to run an Arc GPU without any additional setup.