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.