AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4
The netinstall did not recognize the HD 7770 card.
The AMD Catalyst notes page states the supported distros to be:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Suite 6.3 and 6.4
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3
OpenSUSE 11.4 and 12.1
Ubuntu 12.04.2 and 13.04
So I looked for what needs to be done to get drivers working on Debian 7.4.
I downloaded the Catalyst installation per:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Catalyst-Linux-Installer-Notes.aspx#
Then:
sudo sh ./amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run --listpkg
which produces:
Debian Packages:
Debian/sid
Debian/unstable
Debian/etch
Debian/stable
Debian/lenny
Debian/testing
Debian/experimental
Well, I am running wheezy, Debian 7.4. So I tried:
sh ./amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/experimental
which produced:
Generating package: Debian/experimental
Error: Distro Version entered incorrectly or not supported, use --listpkg to identify valid distro versions
I tried the same thing with Debian/wheezy, and got the same message.
Any idea how I may get the card to work in 7.4?
What may be the challenges of installing one of:
Debian/lenny
Debian/testing
Debian/experimental
then installing the Catalyst package, then upgrading to 7.4?
Ray
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MB Big Bang-XPower II, CPU Intel i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz x12,
GPU Sapphire 7770, RAM 32GB, 1 TB HDD, 4 ea 64 GB SSD, PSU 850W,
Windows 8, Debian 7.4 (wheezy) 64-bit, GNOME 3.4.2
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