following tanuks instructions and installing from the crosstie, added the d3d modules and everything went real smooth.
initially it displayed my graphics card as not compatible but I know that isn't true since there is no incompatibility in a windows install. I simply ignored it.
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Barts HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6800 Series]
Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Device aa88
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 35
Memory at fe7bc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Linux prometheous 4.1.6 #2 SMP Tue Aug 25 19:45:23 CDT 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Model name: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 645 Processor