Radeon acceleration on Debian
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Here's some concise notes on getting 3d acceleration working on southern-islands AMD Radeon hardware using the free radeon driver under Debian.
3d acceleration requires:
- A working kernel
- Use a stable 3.15 kernel.
- Versions before 3.15.0, including release candidates, are not stable
- 3.16-RC* are currently unstable. See [1]
- GLAMOR support for the xserver.
- GLAMOR support built into the radeon driver, and
- Gallium3D support added to the MESA libraries.
GLAMOR enabled xserver
Xorg 1.6.0 will include the GLAMOR library, and is available with the version 1.15.999 in the Debian experimental repositories.
- Add the Debian experimental repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list file.
sudo apt-get install -t experimental xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-dev sudo apt-get source -t experimental --compile xserver-xorg-input-evdev
- Install the built xserver-xorg-input-evdev package.
- Add
Load "glamoregl"
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the Module section - Add
Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the Device section
GLAMOR enabled driver
GLAMOR is disabled in the Debian xserver-xorg-video-radeon package (as at 7.4.0-1), so we need to modify the source and build it.
apt-get source -t experimental xserver-xorg-video-radeon
In xserver-xorg-video-ati-7.4.0/debian/rules change --disable-glamor
to --enable-glamor
dpkg-buildpackage sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-radeon_7.4.0-1_amd64.deb
Rebuild MESA
apt-get source -t experimental libgl1-mesa-dri
Change mesa-10.2.1/debian/rules to add the following to the end of confflags-dri
--enable-xvmc \ --enable-gbm \ --enable-vdpau \ --enable-gallium-egl \ --enable-gallium-gbm \ --with-llvm-shared-libs \ --with-gallium-drivers="r300,r600,radeonsi,swrast"
Add under # Copy the hardlinked *_dri.so correctly.
in the binary-arch
target just before the dh_install -s --fail-missing
line:
mv debian/tmp/dri/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/libXvMCr600.so* \ debian/libgl1-mesa-dri/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/
dpkg-buildpackage sudo dpkg -i libegl1-mesa_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libegl1-mesa-dev_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libegl1-mesa-drivers_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libgbm1_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libgbm-dev_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libgl1-mesa-dev_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libgl1-mesa-dri_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libgl1-mesa-glx_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libglapi-mesa_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libgles1-mesa_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libgles1-mesa-dev_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libgles2-mesa_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libgles2-mesa-dev_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libopenvg1-mesa_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libopenvg1-mesa-dev_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libosmesa6_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libosmesa6-dev_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libwayland-egl1-mesa_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libxatracker2_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb libxatracker-dev_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb mesa-common-dev_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb mesa-vdpau-drivers_10.2.1-2_amd64.deb