X problems in Stretch with AMD APU?

Subject: X problems in Stretch with AMD APU?

From: Alle Meije Wink <a.m.wink@gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 22:19:59 +0200

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I have a home theatre PC with an AMD A6-3500 APU. Bit of an oldie but still plays everything fine. The drivers supplied by the Jessie repositories (including fglrx for hardware acceleration) worked fine.

But then I upgraded to Stretch and suddenly started without X. The debian supplied drivers don't seem to support the A6 any more?

I got everything working again 3 weeks ago by installing the proprietary drivers (catalyst 15.9). But now X has gone again and the same catalyst package refuses to install.

The error message that the installer gives is that the X version is too low for catalyst?

Then I removed (--purge) xserver-xorg-core and reinstalled it. But when I now start X it says 'no screens found'..

Is there a way to get the AMD APUs off that generation working in Stretch working again?

Or to at least start X again (with a very low resolution, assuming basic hardware)?

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