AMD or ATI
AMD GPU support requires the linux-firmware-amd
package. If you have installed
the linux
or linux-lts
packages, it will be installed as a dependency. If
you installed a version-specific kernel package (e.g., linux5.4
), it may be
necessary to manually install linux-firmware-amd
.
OpenGL
Install the Mesa DRI package, mesa-dri
. This is already included in the xorg
meta-package, but it is needed when installing Xorg via xorg-minimal
or for
running a Wayland compositor.
Vulkan
Install vulkan-loader
, the Khronos Vulkan Loader. Then install one or both of
the Mesa AMD Vulkan driver, mesa-vulkan-radeon
; or the GPUOpen AMD Vulkan
driver, amdvlk
.
Xorg
Installing the xorg
meta-package will pull in both xf86-video-amdgpu
and,
for older hardware, xf86-video-ati
. If you install xorg-minimal
, choose one
of these Xorg driver packages to match your hardware. The amdgpu
driver should
support cards built on AMD's "Graphics Core Next 1.2" architecture, introduced
circa 2012.
Video acceleration
Install the mesa-vaapi
and mesa-vdpau
packages.