Bug#884863: Support for Radeon R7 3rd generation (Merlin Falcon) in AMD A8-9600
Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.7+19
Severity: normal
Hello,
i have the problem that this GPU is not supported fully.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-A8-Series%20A8-9600.html
It is not possible to get more display resolution then 1024x768.
I discussed the problem already here:
https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=167981
It seems that AMD is not interested to support the newer GPU's in Linux anymore.
The last Crimson / Catalyst only support up to XServer 1.1:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux%20x86_64#
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error: Detected X Server version 'XServer 1.19.2_64a' is not supported.
Supported versions are X.Org 6.9 or later, up to XServer 1.10 (default:v2:x86_64:lib:XServer 1.19.2_64a:none:4.9.0-4-amd64:)
Installation will not proceed.
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There is an package with an Kernel for Ubuntu at AMD:
http://support.amd.com/de-de/download/embedded?os=Linux_tmp%20x86_64
But it seems not to contain an driver i can use.
Any ideas to solve the problem?
I have written to the support of AMD.
If there will come any useful information i will report it here.
Best regards
Karsten
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii lsb-base 9.20161125
x11-common recommends no packages.
x11-common suggests no packages.
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