Arc A770 16 GB and Linux Mint 22.2.

[realBIGBUGEX]

Hello. I got the best GPU on the market, the Sparkle Arc A770, to break the monopoly of OpenAI. Everything was going great until I loaded the operating system - Linux Mint 22.2. The Mesa driver did not fully recognize the video card and its fans were not working. I installed the ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa driver and everything has been running smoothly for 24 hours now without any problems. However, the part for computations, intel-opencl-icd, still does not recognize the GPU. clinfo shows 0 platforms.

Is anyone else experiencing similar issues with this GPU? And how have you resolved the problem?

[Ben_A_Intel]

Not quite the same situation, but I used an A750 on Ubuntu for a while until I upgraded to a B580.

Some things to check:

1. Have you installed all of the driver packages?  I usually just grab the latest compute-runtime release from e.g. https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/tag/25.40.35563.4.
2. Does Linux Mint require your user to be in the video or render group?  If so, you'll need to add your user to these groups, e.g. https://github.com/bashbaug/SimpleOpenCLSamples/blob/main/docs/env/ubuntu/24.04.md#configure-permissions
3. If it still doesn't work, I'd suggest following some of the troubleshooting steps here: https://bashbaug.github.io/opencl/2019/07/06/OpenCL-On-Linux.html

[realBIGBUGEX]

I followed the instructions from the following address: https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/driver/client/overview.html 

sudo clinfo output:

Number of platforms 0

ICD loader properties
ICD loader Name OpenCL ICD Loader
ICD loader Vendor OCL Icd free software
ICD loader Version 2.3.2
ICD loader Profile OpenCL 3.0

The directory /etc/OpenCL/ does not exist at all. But anyway, I'll wait for you to fix the driver. Although I could try with mesa-opencl-icd. It wouldn't be surprising if they turn out to be more serious.

[Ben_A_Intel · Accepted solution]

Since you have no /etc/OpenCL directory it sounds like you have not properly installed the drivers.

$ dpkg -c intel-opencl-icd_25.40.35563.4-0_amd64.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2025-10-17 02:01 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2025-10-17 02:01 ./etc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2025-10-17 02:01 ./etc/OpenCL/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2025-10-17 02:01 ./etc/OpenCL/vendors/
-rw-r--r-- root/root        52 2025-10-17 02:01 ./etc/OpenCL/vendors/intel.icd
...

Could you try grabbing the driver packages from the GitHub release that I linked above?

https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/tag/25.40.35563.4

[realBIGBUGEX]

OK. I will try this.

From installation:

dpkg: warning: downgrading libigdgmm12:amd64 from 22.8.2-0ubuntu1~24.04~ppa1 to 22.8.2

Now the output from clinfo is OK except this warning:

WARNING: Small BAR detected for device 0000:0b:00.0
Number of platforms                               1
  Platform Name                                   Intel(R) OpenCL Graphics
  Platform Vendor                                 Intel(R) Corporation
  Platform Version                                OpenCL 3.0 
  Platform Profile                                FULL_PROFILE
  Platform Extensions                             
...

Update Manager is offering me to update the following packages:

linux-firmware
intel-compute-runtime
intel-gmmlib

 I assume I shouldn't allow it.