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gfejer

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Registered: 2024-01-28

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[SOLVED] AMD ATI Radeon 7730M driver

I have a quite old DELL Inspiron 7520 with a dedicated AMD ATI Radeon 7730M GPU, but I can't get it to work under Arch. I have installed the xf86-video-ati driver and mesa too. I've also created a kernel parameter in /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf, which contains this line I found on the wiki: options radeon si_support=0. after regenerating the initramfs the GPU still doesn't seem to work and the system runs on the integrated Intel Graphics.
I am still kind of new to this stuff and Arch in general, so sorry if I am asking for something obvoius or something, that is clearly on the wiki, but I couldn't figure it out.
Thanks in advance!

Last edited by gfejer (2024-01-28 19:45:39)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] AMD ATI Radeon 7730M driver

You also need the line

options amdgpu si_support=1

to properly switch to the amdgpu driver and even after to actually make use of the card you'd run things you want to run on it with DRI_PRIME=1, e.g. DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo -B or so.

If that didn't help post your xorg log and journal

sudo journalctl -b

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

gfejer

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Registered: 2024-01-28

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] AMD ATI Radeon 7730M driver

Thanks a lot, this worked!