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X problems in Stretch with AMD APU?

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  X problems in Stretch with AMD APU? Alle Meije Wink <a.m.wink@gmail.com> - 2017-08-19 22:40 +0200
    Re: X problems in Stretch with AMD APU? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-08-21 15:30 +0200

#185523 — X problems in Stretch with AMD APU?

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I have a home theatre PC with an AMD A6-3500 APU. Bit of an oldie but still
plays everything fine. The drivers supplied by the Jessie repositories
(including fglrx for hardware acceleration) worked fine.

But then I upgraded to Stretch and suddenly started without X. The debian
supplied drivers don't seem to support the A6 any more?

I got everything working again 3 weeks ago by installing the proprietary
drivers (catalyst 15.9). But now X has gone again and the same catalyst
package refuses to install.

The error message that the installer gives is that the X version is too low
for catalyst?

Then I removed (--purge) xserver-xorg-core and reinstalled it. But when I
now start X it says 'no screens found'..

Is there a way to get the AMD APUs off that generation working in Stretch
working again?

Or to at least start X again (with a very low resolution, assuming basic
hardware)?

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On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 10:19:59PM +0200, Alle Meije Wink wrote:
> I have a home theatre PC with an AMD A6-3500 APU. Bit of an oldie but still
> plays everything fine. The drivers supplied by the Jessie repositories
> (including fglrx for hardware acceleration) worked fine.
> 
> But then I upgraded to Stretch and suddenly started without X. The debian
> supplied drivers don't seem to support the A6 any more?

Start with:

lspci -nn
dmesg | grep -i firmware

If there are any firmware loading errors, these would probably
indicate a need to install some non-free firmware packages
(e.g. firmware-amd-graphics).

Installing amd64-microcode probably wouldn't hurt either, though it
probably won't have an immediately noticeable effect on your graphics.

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