Friday, March 18, 2016

How to remove fglrx and replacing with AMD/ATI in Debian Jessie

"The fglrx driver is incompatible with the GNOME desktop released as part of Debian 8 "Jessie", as it does not support the EGL interface (release notes). It is recommended to use the free radeon driver instead."

After installing fglrx, I can not enter Gnome. I share how to remove fglrx driver and resintall AMD/ATI in Debian Jessie.
  1. Remove all fglrx driver
    # apt-get remove fglrx-driver fglrx-atieventsd libfglrx
  2. Add this repository into /etc/apt/sources.list
    deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
  3. Install or reinstall firmware
    # apt-get install firmware-linux-free firmware-linux-nonfree
    # apt-get install --reinstall firmware-linux-free firmware-linux-nonfree 
  4. Install or reinstall radeon driver (see https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo for your system)
    # apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-radeon libdrm-radeon1 radeontool
    # apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-radeon libdrm-radeon1 radeontool
  5. Replace /etc/X11/xorg.conf with your working configuration. In my case /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-0.
  6. You can start your Gnome
    # startx
Woking at Asus K45DR
  • A8-4500M 
  • AMD Radeon® Mobility™ HD7640G + HD 7470M Dual Graphics with 1GB DDR3 VRAM
Reference:
  • https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo
  • https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary

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