On Thu 06 Oct 2016 at 19:39:21 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > Hi, > > Am 05.10.2016 um 20:58 schrieb Brian: > >On Wed 05 Oct 2016 at 19:50:50 +0200, Hans Kraus wrote: > > > >>thanks to all. Brian is right with his opinion that I'm not subscribed > >>to the list. I sent a 'subscribe' to > >><mailto: debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org> but didn't get an answer > >>(or at least I didn't find it). > > > >The reply comes back to the address you subscribed from. Maybe that > >wasn't h...@hanswkraus.com. But we will not dwell on that; you can sort > >it out at another time. > > > >>How do I switch drivers under Debian, especiallay from the "AMD FGLRX driver > >>for Radeon adapters" to the "free radeon driver, which is the default in > >>jessie"? > > > >I did not mean to imply you are using the FGLRX driver. Your "lspci -v" > >output shows > > > > > Kernel driver in use: radeon > > > >which implies otherwise. But the journalctl output doesn't look happy. > > > >To answer your question: > > > > dpkg -l | grep fglrx > > > >Lines with "ii" indicate installed packages. Purge and see what a reboot > >does. > > root@robbe:~# dpkg -l | grep fglrx > ii fglrx-atieventsd 1:15.9-4~deb8u2 amd64 > events daemon for the non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver > ii fglrx-driver 1:15.9-4~deb8u2 amd64 non-free > ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver > ii fglrx-modules-dkms 1:15.9-4~deb8u2 amd64 > dkms module source for the non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver > ii glx-alternative-fglrx 0.5.1 > amd64 allows the selection of FGLRX as GLX provider > ii libfglrx:amd64 1:15.9-4~deb8u2 amd64 > non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver (runtime libraries) > ii libfglrx-amdxvba1:amd64 1:15.9-4~deb8u2 amd64 > AMD XvBA (X-Video Bitstream Acceleration) backend for VA API > ii libgl1-fglrx-glx:amd64 1:15.9-4~deb8u2 amd64 > proprietary libGL for the non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver > > Is it OK to purge all these?
I would say so. Whether it makes any difference or not is a different matter. I've never used non-free video drivers. If you have an xorg.conf in /etc/X11 I'd move it out of the way. > >(What does the glxinfo command give?) > > > root@robbe:~# glxinfo > Error: unable to open display That is when you used a terminal. Boot into X with xinit -- vt$XDG_VTNR It is not pretty but there is an xterm to type commands into. What is the output? -- Brian.