Re: AMD FirePro W2100

[Dan <ganchya@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I will answer my question.

I installed all the kernel firmware packages the non-free and the free
versions from backports. Now the open source driver seems to work. I
think the Jessie package firmware-linux-nonfree does not have the
firmware for the AMD FirePro W2100

Best,
Dan

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Dan <ganchya@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Recently I bought a workstation with a FirePro W2100 graphics card. I
> use Debian(Jessie). The graphic card freezes randomly with the
> opensource drivers and I get a black screen when I install the last
> version of the proprietary drivers (AMD Fire Pro 14.502.1040).
>
> It seems that AMD has two branches for the proprietary drivers:
> Catalyst (Desktops) and AMD FirePro Unified Driver (Workstations). In
> the Debian repository only the Catalyst/Desktop branch is found. The
> last version for the FirePro Unified Driver driver is from May.
>
> Would you have any ideas?
>
> I check the logs using "journalctl -u gdm" and I have not seen anything strange.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Dan