Debian

General Status

 * Included with Distribution
 * Native Installer Support contributed by Aric Cyr
 * Repackaged by Flavio Stanchina (currently out of date)

Installation

 * Installation Guide (recommended for x86_64 users)

Another installation Guide:


 * 3D Acceleration for your ATI card (works for SUSE, Mandriva and Debian x86. X86_64 users should not use).


 * How to install AMD Catalyst package on 69xx series for x86_64 systems (Tested on Mint Debian 201012):

1. Download latest Catalyst release (currently 10.12) $ cd Desktop; mkdir Catalyst; cd Catalyst/ $ wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-10-12-x86.x86_64.run

2. Now install the x86 packages required for Catalyst: $ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

3. Before continuing you need to remove the standard Radeon drivers: $ sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-radeon

4. Now navigate to the Catalyst folder on your desktop. Right click on the *.run file and click properties. Click the permissions tab and enable 'Allow executing file as program.' and click close. Now double click the *.run file. Choose to install the driver and customize any optional components you wish.

5. Now you need to find your GPU controller name which you will use to generate a basic xorg.conf file. For example, my XFX 6970 shows up as 'ATI Technologies Inc Device 6718.' $ lspci -v | grep VGA

6. Open a terminal and enter: $ sudo gedit

7. In gedit enter (replacing the identifier shown with whatever was produced in the previous step): $ Section "Device" $ Identifier "ATI Technologies Inc Device 6718" $ Driver "fglrx" $ EndSection

Save the file as xorg.conf to etc/X11/ and restart the system.

8. You will have an 'AMD Unsupported Hardware' watermark in the lower right hand side of your screen when using cat 10.12. To remove this, create a text file on your desktop and enter:

$ #!/bin/sh $ DRIVER=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so $ for x in $(objdump -d $DRIVER|awk '/call/&&/EnableLogo/{print "\\x"$2"\\x"$3"\\x"$4"\\x"$5"\\x"$6}'); do $ sed -i "s/$x/\x90\x90\x90\x90\x90/g" $DRIVER $ done

Save this file as watermark.

9. Open a terminal and enter: $ cd Desktop $ chmod 755 watermark $ sudo ./watermark

Log out and log back in. The watermark should be gone and you're done.

Tips and Tricks

 * To build your own .deb packages you will need to install at least the following packages from the apt repositories:
 * fakeroot
 * debhelper
 * build-essential
 * make
 * module-assistant
 * Debian Help
 * Debian Forums

Related Resources

 * Debian wiki page refering ATI.

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 * Flavio Stanchina's ATI ancient Linux driver packages for Debian