[Pkg-fglrx-devel] AMD FirePro M3900 versus fglrx-driver

[Michael Gilbert]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:22 PM, César Rocha wrote:
> Hi, folks!
>
> I'm Cesar, from Brazil. I've been using Debian Squeeze on my desktop:
> it has a ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200] so that
> fglrx-driver works perfectly. But, I'm gonna buy a brand new laptop HP
> Elitebook 8460w very soon so that machine has a AMD FirePro™ M3900
> with 1 GB dedicated DDR3 video memory graphic card. The AMD and HP
> sites only provide a driver compliant with the Suse Enterprise distro.
> So my question is:
>
> Is AMD FirePro M3900 already supported by the current (Squeeze) fglrx-driver
> (or will I probably have problems with that graphic card on Debian
> Squeeze)? If so, will I have to wait until Wheezy release?

Squeeze has the 10-9 driver, which is unlikely to support a card that
new.  However, there is the open source radeon driver present in
squeeze and may work.  Also, the 12-3 proprietary driver is available
via squeeze-backports, which is more likely to support that card, but
you'll have to read up to confirm that.  It's also possible to
backport the newer version, but someone would need to volunteer to do
that.

Best wishes,
Mike