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Setting Up Your Graphics Card

The Debian operating system comes with innate support for many AMD, Nvidia and Intel graphics hardware.  Depending on the manufacturer, the open-source driver's hardware integration and functionality can be limited until proprietary drivers are installed.

 

AMD/ATI

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Modern AMD graphics (2015 or later) are fully supported and run stable out-of-the-box using the open-source AMDGPU software maintained by Debian.  

AMD provide their own proprietary drivers, but they can cause system instability and should be avoided. 


Intel

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Integrated graphics, like those found in Intel processors since 1999, are fully supported and run stable out-of-the-box using X.org's Intel Graphics cardsDriver. from certainWhile manufacturersolder canmodels require a littledifferent extradriver, workthey toare getstill running.fully supported.

 

Nvidia

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