For older devices, see AMD Catalyst Legacy 13.1.Īdd 'contrib' and 'non-free' components to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example: # Debian 7 'Wheezy'įor support of Radeon HD 4000, Radeon HD 3000 and Radeon HD 2000 series GPUs.Īdd Debian Backports sources to /etc/apt/sources.list, also including the 'contrib' and 'non-free' components. Restart your system to enable the radeon blacklist.įor support of Radeon HD 7000, Radeon HD 6000 and Radeon HD 5000 series GPUs.DKMS will build the fglrx module for your system.Ĭreate an Xorg server configuration file. This will also install the recommended fglrx-modules-dkms package. # aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,*-*-,') fglrx-driver Install the appropriate linux-headers and fglrx-driver packages: # aptitude update It is recommended to use the free radeon driver instead.Īdd 'contrib' and 'non-free' components to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example: # Debian 8 'Jessie' This driver is incompatible with the GNOME desktop, as it does not support the EGL interface. For Radeon HD 4000, Radeon HD 3000 and Radeon HD 2000 series GPUs.Īll versions above are available only for the x86 and x86-64 architectures (Debian i386 and AMD64 ports respectively).įor support of Radeon R9 200, Radeon R7 200, Radeon HD 8000, Radeon HD 7000, Radeon HD 6000 and Radeon HD 5000 series GPUs ( supported devices).For Radeon HD 7000, Radeon HD 6000 and Radeon HD 5000 series GPUs.ĪMD Catalyst Legacy 13.1 via wheezy-backports (legacy GPUs).Two driver versions are available for Debian 7 'Wheezy': The AMD Catalyst Legacy driver - supporting the Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series - is not available for Debian 8 'Jessie', as upstream has not updated the driver for newer Xorg releases ( 726500). For Radeon R9 200 series, Radeon R7 200 series, Radeon HD 8000, Radeon HD 7000, Radeon HD 6000 and Radeon HD 5000 GPUs.One driver version is available for Debian 8 'Jessie': It is a binary-only Xorg driver requiring a Linux kernel module for its use. The proprietary 'AMD Catalyst Linux Graphics Driver' (aka fglrx) provides optimized hardware acceleration of OpenGL applications via a direct-rendering X server. See HowToIdentifyADevice/PCI for more information. For example:Ġ1:00.0 Display controller : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. The AMD/ATI graphics processing unit (GPU) series/codename of an installed video card can usually be identified using the lspci command.

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