1 el_koraco!/loony/bun From: inside Ed Registered: Posts: 4,749 The definitive guide to proprietary AMD graphics drivers This tutorial was completely valid for Squeeze, and was written in a time when I had both an AMD card and Debian as my OS of choice. I no longer have either one of them, so while the methods will probably work, I have no way of checking. If someone wants to take over, I'll gladly offer what little assistance I can offer. Terminologyradeon - this is the open source driver for 99 percent of the cards. It does 2 D and 3 D, KMS, is extremely stable, works out of the box for pretty much everything once you install the package firmware-linux-nonfree. It has crappy power management, so it runs about 10 degrees Celsius hotter than the proprietary driver. radeonhd - this is the older version of the open source driver. It doesn't have 3 D support. There may be a card or two that uses it still, but it's pretty much a ramnant of the past. You're highly unlikely to see it. Catalyst - that's the official name of the priprietary driver, it's the same as in Windows, only the driver is worse. fglrx - it's the Linuxed version of the name, not the driver itself. It stands for Fire GL and Radeon for X. Catalyst and fglrx are the same thing. It used to be that every distro named the prepackaged driver in the repositories fglrx, but some are changing that policy. You're completely right not to care about it. Is my card supported? AMD has recently dropped support for everything under the HD5xxx line. If you have an older card, my best suggestion is to install a distro with Catalyst 12.4, or use the legacy driver (it's on AMD's site and in various repositories). The problem with the legacy driver is that it requires xorg 1.12, so you will be having to work with downgrades. Prerequisites In general, stick to the open source driver, this is just.
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