Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-14 Thread ray
> You have to find the exact package and install it by name, not just > > plug a word in and panic!! As you see, I have multiarch-support > > installed. If you _can't_ see that I have multiarch-support > > installed, and I am assuming too much, then I suggest that you read > > up a bit on

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 13 April 2014 19:27:31 ray wrote: > > Would it be worth just trying installing multiarch? With one of > > the apt family. (I use aptitude). I agree that it is not > > obviously > > # apt-get install multiarch > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state in

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/13/2014 08:01 PM, ray wrote: Do you have Synaptic installed?? Use that to hunt down and install your packages. If the wheezy version fails you then try the run package ...as a last resort. Or, upgrade to jessie to legally get the latest and greatest. That is what I did to get the newer vers

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-14 Thread ray
Marko, > Of course you are, in one of previous posts you got a solution but looks > like you missed it :) Thank you for responding. I have overlooked it a couple times now; going back through, I don't see it. Please suggest what it was, I can't see what I am missing. Ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-14 Thread Bruno Schneider
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:01 PM, ray wrote: > > I did not find the fglrx package in Synaptic. I did find some multiarch > packages which I installed. But the initial error of not finding the > architecture was persistent. > It is in the non-free section. Perhaps you have not include that secti

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-13 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:27:31 -0700 (PDT) ray wrote: > Am I missing something here? Of course you are, in one of previous posts you got a solution but looks like you missed it :) -- http://markorandjelovic.hopto.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-13 Thread ray
> Do you have Synaptic installed?? Use that to hunt down and install your > packages. If the wheezy version fails you then try the run package ...as > a last resort. Or, upgrade to jessie to legally get the latest and > greatest. That is what I did to get the newer versions of my nVidia > drive

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/13/2014 02:27 PM, ray wrote: Am I missing something here? I found an alternative at: https://wiki.debian.org/Installing_ATI_fglrx_legacy_with_latest_kernel This is a year old but it addressing building the driver package. Is there any problem with this approach? Thanks for all the input,

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-13 Thread ray
> Would it be worth just trying installing multiarch? With one of the > apt family. (I use aptitude). I agree that it is not obviously # apt-get install multiarch Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package multia

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 13 April 2014 03:28:42 ray wrote: > > > Error: unsupported architecture: > > > > I haven't been reading this properly. Sorry. :-( Are your > > distro, > > > > your driver and your CPU all the same architecture? > > Yes, from the dpkg --print-architecture --> amd64, the CPU is an

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread ray
> > Error: unsupported architecture: > > I haven't been reading this properly. Sorry. :-( Are your distro, > > your driver and your CPU all the same architecture? Yes, from the dpkg --print-architecture --> amd64, the CPU is an Intel i7-3930K, and the Catalyst package is amd-catal

ERRATA - Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 12 April 2014 23:18:26 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 12 April 2014 15:38:14 ray wrote: > > OK, I tried: > > Generating package: Debian/stable > > ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: 1: > > ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: dpkg-architecture: not found > > > > Error: unsupported ar

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 12 April 2014 15:38:14 ray wrote: > OK, I tried: > Generating package: Debian/stable > ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: 1: > ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: dpkg-architecture: not found > Error: unsupported architecture: (my stars) I haven't been reading this properly.

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 12 April 2014 15:38:14 ray wrote: > Yes, wheezy is stable; today.  But at the time the driver package > was built, what would have been 'stable'? Try testing. If the driver is an old driver, Wheezy may have been Testing when the driver was released. Wheezy was released as Stable on

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Bruno Schneider
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:38 AM, ray wrote: > > Yes, wheezy is stable; today. But at the time the driver package was built, > what would have been 'stable'? > Ray, why don't you install the fglrx driver from repositories? I'm having my own problems with that driver, but since I use testing, I'

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2014-04-12, ray wrote: > > Yes, wheezy is stable; today. But at the time the driver package was > built, what would have been 'stable'? > I deduce squeeze. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 07:38:14 -0700 (PDT) ray wrote: > ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: 1: ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: > dpkg-architecture: not found Install 'dpkg-dev' package to solve this. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread ray
> Yes, the error was that you needed "stable", certainly > not "experimental"! > OK, I tried: Generating package: Debian/stable ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: 1: ./packages/Debian/ati-packager.sh: dpkg-architecture: not found Error: unsupported architecture: Just to confirm: lsb_relea

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 12 April 2014 04:04:29 ray wrote: > Well, I am running wheezy, Debian 7.4.  So I tried: > sh ./amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg > Debian/experimental This doesn't make sense. Wheezy is Stable, so surely: sh ./amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/04/14 11:04 PM, ray wrote: The netinstall did not recognize the HD 7770 card. The AMD Catalyst notes page states the supported distros to be: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Suite 6.3 and 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 OpenSUSE 11.4 and 12.1 Ubuntu 12.04.2 and 13.04 So I looked for what needs

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, ray wrote: > The netinstall did not recognize the HD 7770 card. > > [snip] > > Then: > sudo sh ./amd-catalyst-13.12-linux-x86.x86_64.run --listpkg > > which produces: > > Debian Packages: > Debian/sid > Debian/unstable > Debian/etch > Debian/stable > D

AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-11 Thread ray
The netinstall did not recognize the HD 7770 card. The AMD Catalyst notes page states the supported distros to be: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Suite 6.3 and 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 OpenSUSE 11.4 and 12.1 Ubuntu 12.04.2 and 13.04 So I looked for what needs to be done to get drivers w