Hi! I've been working on a laptop running debian for a while now. I was getting irritated at it because when the laptop isn't plugged into my docking station, it has performance issues. The docking station has a second monitor attached to it, which I used at work.
To try and 'fix' the problem, I decided in all my wisdom to update the video driver. Which wrecked it
Some outputs for you all:
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john@machine:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I217-LM (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev d4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev d4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev d4)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #7 (rev d4)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #8 (rev d4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation QM87 Express LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Venus XT [Radeon HD 8870M / R9 M270X/M370X]
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7700/7800 Series]
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
11:00.0 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
Code:
john@machine:~$ lshw -short
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
H/W path Device Class Description
=====================================================
system Computer
/0 bus Motherboard
/0/0 memory 31GiB System memory
/0/1 processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4910MQ CPU @ 2.90
/0/100 bridge Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor
/0/100/1 bridge Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor
/0/100/1/0 display Venus XT [Radeon HD 8870M / R9 M270X/M
/0/100/1/0.1 multimedia Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon
/0/100/2 display 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Grap
/0/100/3 multimedia Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor
/0/100/14 bus 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family US
/0/100/16 communication 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family ME
/0/100/19 eth0 network Ethernet Connection I217-LM
/0/100/1a bus 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family US
/0/100/1b multimedia 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Defi
/0/100/1c bridge 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PC
/0/100/1c.2 bridge 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PC
/0/100/1c.2/0 wlan0 network BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adap
/0/100/1c.3 bridge 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PC
/0/100/1c.4 bridge 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PC
/0/100/1c.6 bridge 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PC
/0/100/1c.7 bridge 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PC
/0/100/1c.7/0 generic SD/MMC Card Reader Controller
/0/100/1d bus 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family US
/0/100/1f bridge QM87 Express LPC Controller
/0/100/1f.2 storage 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mod
/0/100/1f.3 bus 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SM
/0/2 scsi1 storage
/0/2/0.0.0 /dev/cdrom disk DVD+-RW GU90N
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.
Code:
john@machine:~$ sudo lshw -C video
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Venus XT [Radeon HD 8870M / R9 M270X/M370X]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f7e00000-f7e3ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:f7e40000-f7e5ffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 06
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:47 memory:f5800000-f5bfffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
The relevent hardware is the built-in VGA controller at
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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
and the AMD/ATI VGA card:
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Venus XT [Radeon HD 8870M / R9 M270X/M370X]
Some more info:
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john@machine:~$ cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid \n \l
john@machine:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
stretch/sid
Obviously, I would really want to get my card to work again. From my understanding, the AMD/ATI Radeon HD 8870M video card is "unclaimed" meaning there is no driver attached to it. How/where do I find the correct driver? How do I install it.
I really hope one of you guys knows how to fix this.
