So, I tried the whole thing with a Ubuntu 22.04 distrobox following the official guide on Intel’s website only installing the drivers mentioned (except for the kernel, which is shared from the host system) and I’m getting the same crash scenario here:
./blender --debug-cycles --verbose 6
Warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C")
Read prefs: /home/alex/.config/blender/3.4/config/userpref.blend
hwconfig key 77 (UNKNOWN_INTEL_HWCONFIG) unhandled!
hwconfig key 78 (UNKNOWN_INTEL_HWCONFIG) unhandled!
hwconfig key 79 (UNKNOWN_INTEL_HWCONFIG) unhandled!
hwconfig key 80 (UNKNOWN_INTEL_HWCONFIG) unhandled!
I1025 01:15:04.518229 30587 device.cpp:104] Added device "Intel(R) Graphics [0x56a1]" with id "ONEAPI_Intel(R) Level-Zero_Intel(R) Graphics [0x56a1]_0000:2b:00.0".
I1025 01:15:21.886343 30587 device_impl.cpp:40] oneAPI queue has been successfully created for the device "Intel(R) Graphics [0x56a1]"
I1025 01:15:21.886368 30587 device_impl.cpp:52] Successfully created global/constant memory segment (kernel globals object)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'sycl::_V1::runtime_error'
what(): Native API failed. Native API returns: -997 (The plugin has emitted a backend specific error) -997 (The plugin has emitted a backend specific error)
fish: Job 1, './blender --debug-cycles --verb…' terminated by signal SIGABRT (Abort)
Unfortunately, debug output is not very useful.
resizeable bar is activated in my BIOS and seems to be detected as such, assuming for the A750 the memory address is different than the one mentioned in the Intel docs:
lspci -v |grep -A8 VGA
lspci: Unable to load libkmod resources: error -2
2b:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 56a1 (rev 08) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1021
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 76, IOMMU group 19
Memory at fb000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at 7c00000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=8G]
Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=2M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
So for the moment, I have to assume that this is either an issue with trying to run blender in a container and/or an issue with using kernel 6.1. Since I don’t want to install Ubuntu on “bare metal”, I guess I will have to wait for drivers and compatibility to improve for other distributions/configurations.