AMD/ATI Radeon HD video card not supported starting from kernel-4.6.4 in Fedora 23

asked 2016-09-05 07:57:36 -0600

ullalun gravatar image

Hi all,

I am running a Fedora 23 workstation on a Toshiba Satellite 64-bit, processor Intel Core i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz × 8. The video card is: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Thames [Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series].

Since kernel-4.6.4 I started to have problems with my display resolution. I cannot adjust it and I cannot detect a second screen. In particular, it seems that the drivers are not found at all:

lshw -c video

   *-display UNCLAIMED
   description: VGA compatible controller
   product: Thames [Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series]
   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:b0000000-bfffffff memory:c2000000-c201ffff ioport:3000(size=256) memory:0-1ffff

although package xorg-x11-drv-ati is installed.

Does anybody know what the problem could be here? Did maybe Fedora stop supporting this video card? Thank you for your help.

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Did you install a AMD driver if so how how you installed?

aeperezt gravatar imageaeperezt ( 2016-09-05 09:35:43 -0600 )edit

AMD Radeon driver should be already installed (default). From yum: Package xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.6.1-3.20160215gitd41fccc.fc24.x86_64 is already installed, skipping.

ullalun gravatar imageullalun ( 2016-09-05 10:23:28 -0600 )edit

That only means that the Xorg server package is installed not the kernel module, which is what you really need to make it work, review what lsmod tell you and look for radeon or AMD in the output, not sure of the name of the kernel module for your card. To do so open a terminal and type lsmod and enter.

aeperezt gravatar imageaeperezt ( 2016-09-05 11:24:19 -0600 )edit

Thank you for your answer. lsmod returns the output:

lsmod | grep radeon

radeon               1507328  0
i2c_algo_bit           16384  1 radeon  
drm_kms_helper        143360  1 radeon
ttm                    90112  1 radeon
drm                   344064  3 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon

lsmod | grep amd

amdkfd                131072  1
amd_iommu_v2           20480  1 amdkfd
ullalun gravatar imageullalun ( 2016-09-05 12:20:31 -0600 )edit

Well now we know for sure that the AMD Radeon card kernel module is installed and running, what you experience maybe a bug or something because Fedora has not stop support your card. Are you using Gnome or other desktop?

aeperezt gravatar imageaeperezt ( 2016-09-05 14:04:23 -0600 )edit
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