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## Radeon R7250 Display Driver

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### Radeon R7250 Display Driver

by handygeek » Thu Dec 29, 2016 12:36 am

May any of these Radeon R7250 Linux display drivers be downloaded and used with Refracta, please?
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux%20x86_64
Thanks!

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### Re: Radeon R7250 Display Driver

by fsmithred » Thu Dec 29, 2016 10:54 am

It's been about 10 years since I've tried amd proprietary drivers. I assume you can use those instead of the ones in the repository. If it works on debian jessie, it will almost certainly work on devuan or refracta.

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### Re: Radeon R7250 Display Driver

by handygeek » Fri Dec 30, 2016 12:07 am

Isn't Ubuntu a Debian derivative?
If so should a driver that works with Ubuntu also work with Debian?
Thanks!
Distributions supported:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Suite 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 6.7, 6.6, 6.5
Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS, 14.04.2, 14.04.3, 15.04, 15.10
SUSE® Linux Enterprise 11 SP3, 12
OpenSuSE 13.1
Distribution specific packages are available for:​
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Suite 7.1, 7.0, 6.6, 6.5
Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS, 14.04.2​

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### Re: Radeon R7250 Display Driver

by fsmithred » Fri Dec 30, 2016 4:28 am

The package for ubuntu may or may not work with debian or other debian derivatives. You would probably have better luck with a package made for debian, like one from the repo. Have you tried it?

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  `apt-cache policy fglrx-driver
  fglrx-driver:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:15.9-4~deb8u2
  Version table:
  1:15.12-2~bpo8+3 0
  200 http://packages.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-backports/non-free amd64 Packages
  1:15.9-4~deb8u2 0
  500 http://us.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie/non-free amd64 Packages
  `

Take a look at these:
https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo
https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary
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### Re: Radeon R7250 Display Driver

by handygeek » Fri Dec 30, 2016 2:30 pm

Thank you for helping!
I've wrestled, most often unsuccessfully, with Linux drivers - for almost 20 years.
I've learned that I lack the skill to successfully chase the dependencies & negotiate the maze of compile variables - the result is usually a mess and lost time.
It sounds as though in this case I'll have to wait for someone with better skills than mine (not saying much) to port the driver to Debian.
Thanks again - David

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### Re: Radeon R7250 Display Driver

by fsmithred » Fri Dec 30, 2016 5:17 pm

You seem to have a misunderstanding about devuan. 99% of the packages in devuan come straight from the debian repo, unchanged. If you enable contrib and non-free repositories, all you have to do is

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  `apt-get update
  apt-get install fglrx-driver`

to install the proprietary driver.

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### Re: Radeon R7250 Display Driver

by handygeek » Fri Dec 30, 2016 6:16 pm

Here's the problem:
As best I can tell the R7250 driver in not in the Debian repo, only the other repos listed above.
So, what happens if I try to force a non-Debian package into Refracta/Devuan/Debian?
Thanks - David

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### Re: Radeon R7250 Display Driver

by fsmithred » Fri Dec 30, 2016 8:47 pm

The driver I showed you is the driver you showed me, except that the one I showed you is packaged properly for your system. If 15.9 is too old for you, you can get the 15.12 from backports. But I'd recommend trying the 15.9 first. The worst that happens is you have to uninstall it, and since it came from the repo, the package manager knows what to do with it. And I'm pretty sure that backports is already in sources.list (or sources.list.d). You just have to uncomment it and update.
If you install from other sources, you might not have an easy time of installing or removing it. It coud work just fine, or it could screw up your system and be very difficult to remove.

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