nvidia or AMD or something to support video card

sexynsmartjenny · 2016-07-19 18:12:21

When I was using crunchbang, I followed a tutorial to install some driver for nvidia or something that made my videos super fast. Is there something similar to that in bunsenlabs?

I was using openshot, the video editor, and my computer was incredibly slow. Is there any way to fix that?

My video card is below:

-Processors-
AMD E1-2100 APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics : 800.00MHz
AMD E1-2100 APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics : 800.00MHz

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-07-19 18:17:11

Please post the output of:

lspci -vnn | grep '\''[030[02]\]'

sexynsmartjenny · 2016-07-21 02:19:14

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Please post the output of:
lspci -vnn | grep '\''[030[02]\]'

Hi, sorry, I was away from my computer for the last two days and just got back. Okay, here is the output:

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kabini [Radeon HD 8210] [1002:9834] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

BTW, I find the OS to be somewhat slow at times, a bit slower than crunchbang and I think the issue might be that there is no support for my video card? No?

Last edited by sexynsmartjenny (2016-07-21 02:23:17)

hhh · 2016-07-21 06:27:40

Let's see what "or something else" leads you to.

https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary

https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary# … alyst_14.9

I have to say, I don't like it. I've done "Headers". The cli commands are usually wrong for installs and updating is a nightmare. That said, there are awesome people here who will walk you through if are bright and willing.

Dull and willing is... acceptable.

hhh · 2016-07-21 06:31:32

I hate smxi too because I ran aptosid for a year and they hated it, but that's probably your best bet.

http://smxi.org/site/about.htm
http://smxi.org/site/install.htm

Be patient, let someone here post and walk you through it. You can really screw your OS messing with video drivers, and wiping your partition defeats the purpose of using a Debian stable system, so let's not go there just yet.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-07-21 07:59:32

Which drivers are being used now?

lspci -k|grep -iA2 vga

Do you have all the necessary packages installed?

apt-cache policy firmware-linux-nonfree libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-video-ati

sexynsmartjenny · 2016-07-22 00:55:57

@head on a stick

output of those two commands are

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kabini [Radeon HD 8210]
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device f910
	Kernel driver in use: radeon

And

firmware-linux-nonfree:
  Installed: 0.43
  Candidate: 0.43
  Version table:
     20160110-1~bpo8+1 0
        100 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports/non-free amd64 Packages
 *** 0.43 0
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/non-free amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libgl1-mesa-dri:
  Installed: 10.3.2-1+deb8u1
  Candidate: 10.3.2-1+deb8u1
  Version table:
     11.1.3-1~bpo8+1 0
        100 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports/main amd64 Packages
 *** 10.3.2-1+deb8u1 0
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
xserver-xorg-video-ati:
  Installed: 1:7.5.0-1
  Candidate: 1:7.5.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 1:7.5.0-1 0
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

@hhh, Regarding smix, I remember back in crunchbang days, there was some kernel of liquorix or something that, when installed, had my OS completely shut out and I had to resort back to what I had before. I always felt nvidia was really good and worked really well, but I don't think that is an option in this case, right?

Last edited by sexynsmartjenny (2016-07-22 00:58:45)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-07-22 07:13:31

sexynsmartjenny wrote:

I always felt nvidia was really good and worked really well, but I don't think that is an option in this case, right?

That's right, you don't have any NVIDIA cards at the moment.

Your drivers are all present and correct although you could bump up the Mesa version to (hopefully) improve 3D rendering and try the newer firmware as well:

sudo apt-get install -t jessie-backports firmware-linux-nonfree libgl1-mesa-dri

If you are using the backported kernel (the output of `uname -a` will show kernel 4.6 if you are) then this may be the reason for the poor performance -- the firmware version you have at the moment doesn't match the backported kernel and so may not work.

If the output of `uname -a` shows kernel 3.16 then you should try the newer kernel as well:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=1257

You will then have menu entries under the "Advanced Options" section in the GRUB (boot) menu to choose the old (3.16) kernel if there are any problems with the new one.

If these tricks don't help then you can try the proprietary drivers, as noted by hhh.

In my experience though the open drivers are very good and the fglrx alternative is a memory hog.

sexynsmartjenny · 2016-07-22 12:07:23

I think my kernel is 3.16 so I have to update everything.

Linux 4629175 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 (2016-07-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I will try your methods once I get back from work and I will let you know. Thanks for the suggestions!

Last edited by sexynsmartjenny (2016-07-22 12:08:26)

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nvidia or AMD or something to support video card

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