Bug#792099: Jessie kernel does not recognize rebranded AMD r7 360 videocard, missing PCI-ID in drm_pciids.h
Package: linux-source-3.16
Version: 3.16.7-ckt11-1
Severity: important
Dear maintainer,
Recently AMD released rebranded videocards as the R7/R9 300 series, and
I bought one of them.
As these are rebrands, most of the hardware of these cards is already
supported by the Mesa/xorg stack.
However, these rebranded cards have new PCI-ID's, and are not yet
recognized by Jessie's 3.16 kernel.
Problem: Jessie desktop only runs MESA fallback, and not the free radeon
driver.
Only way to have a hw accelerated desktop is by installing proprietary
fglrx 15.7 driver from amd.com
Solution: Insert PCI-ID line(s) in include/drm/drm_pciids.h.
As an example, for my R7 360 card I added the following line:
{0x1002, 0x665f, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0,
CHIP_BONAIRE|RADEON_NEW_MEMMAP}, \
... taken from the patches on kernel 3.14 and upwards on kernel.org
I recompiled my kernel and Jessie now runs fine on the free radeon stack.
NOTE: In kernel 3.14 (see kernel.org) the PCI-ID of my card and others
were patched already.
You can take the addition(s) in drm_pciids.h from there.
I hope to see this problem resolved in a Jessie stable kernel update.
Best regards.
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