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 * Repackaged by Flavio Stanchina (currently out of date)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 ) $ cd Desktop; mkdir Catalyst; cd Catalyst/ $ wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/

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.

'''EDIT: STOP! I did not need to do any of the following steps below, in fact I did it once and I was unable to boot GDM3 unitl I deleted the xorg.conf file. The ATI installation will generate the correct xorg.conf for you.You should now reboot your system to activate the new drivers.'''

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