Re: Display drivers for ATI Radeon HD 4350 (RV710) on Wheezy

[Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz>]

On 09/19/2013 11:29 AM, Adrian Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed Wheezy yesterday and on first boot Gnome failed to load
> due to the lack of hardware accelerated graphics.
>
> After a quick google I came across the AtiHowTo [1] page. It says I
> need to install the proprietary firmware for my particular graphics
> card. I did that by installing firmware-linux-nonfree as instructed.
> After rebooting GNOME3 successfully loads. Success.
>
> Shortly after I come across the ATIProprietary [2] page. It describes
> how to install ATI's proprietary display driver.
>
> So to my question; what's the difference between the proprietary,
> binary-only firmware described in AtiHowto [1] and the AMD proprietary
> display driver described in ATIProprietary [2]. Which one should I
> use? Is it just a matter of personal preference? Does one offer better
> performance over the other?
>
> Thanks
> Adrian
>
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo
> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary

[1] describes how to install proprietary firmware for the open source 
xorg driver "radeon".

[2] describes how to install proprietary ATI/AMD driver.

As far as I know, the proprietary driver has (better) 3D support.

HTH

Best regards
Georgi