X problems in Stretch with AMD APU?

From	Zoltán Herman <zoltanhbz@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	X problems in Stretch with AMD APU?
Date	2017-08-20 01:00 +0200
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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.

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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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Add non-free to sources.list
update
install firmware-amd-graphics
etc.
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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

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