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  X problems in Stretch with AMD APU? Zoltán Herman <zoltanhbz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 01:00 +0200
    Re: X problems in Stretch with AMD APU? Alle Meije Wink <a.m.wink@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 11:40 +0200
      Re: X problems in Stretch with AMD APU? Zoltán Herman <zoltanhbz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-20 12:50 +0200

#185533 — X problems in Stretch with AMD APU?

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And what kind of kernel is installed 4.9 or 4.11?
Check the kernel log to see if the firmware has been loaded.

>>
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)?
<<
Add non-free to sources.list
update
install firmware-amd-graphics
etc.
<<.

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I'm running 4.11

Got a bit further by removing the MESA libraries for GLX support. That
removed many graphics applications and libraries. Then added
xserver-xorg-core again and now X starts again.

Some work to do because my (wireless USB) keyboard is not recognised in the
x session but that should be doable. So it looks like it's OK again but not
sure what the crucial step was...

On 20 Aug 2017 00:54, "Zoltán Herman" <zoltanhbz@gmail.com> wrote:

> And what kind of kernel is installed 4.9 or 4.11?
> Check the kernel log to see if the firmware has been loaded.
>
> >>
> 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)?
> <<
> Add non-free to sources.list
> update
> install firmware-amd-graphics
> etc.
> <<.
>

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#185553

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Hi Alle,

the 4.9 kernel already has amd graphics support, but it needs firmware,
others do not have to(perhaps mesa, opengl, opencl). The X window must be
on the radeon driver.

If I were upgrading then I would always install a new one and switch
off the old(or will be secondary hdd :)
(Even if I sacrifice three days)

systemctl status bluetooth ?

Greetings
Zoltán

2017-08-20 11:14 GMT+02:00 Alle Meije Wink <a.m.wink@gmail.com>:

> I'm running 4.11
>
> Got a bit further by removing the MESA libraries for GLX support. That
> removed many graphics applications and libraries. Then added
> xserver-xorg-core again and now X starts again.
>
> Some work to do because my (wireless USB) keyboard is not recognised in
> the x session but that should be doable. So it looks like it's OK again but
> not sure what the crucial step was...
>
> On 20 Aug 2017 00:54, "Zoltán Herman" <zoltanhbz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And what kind of kernel is installed 4.9 or 4.11?
>> Check the kernel log to see if the firmware has been loaded.
>>
>> >>
>> 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)?
>> <<
>> Add non-free to sources.list
>> update
>> install firmware-amd-graphics
>> etc.
>> <<.
>>
>

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