[OpenIndiana-discuss] IO_b148 on an ATI HD 5770: Xorg failure / black screen

[ken mays]

Hi Ed,

I validated the ATI Radeon HD 4870 card on OpenSolaris a while ago. The driver of choice is now the 'radeon' driver which is compatible with the ATI Radeon HD 5970 card and the ATI Radeon 5*** series. The radeonHD driver is consider defunct so use the newer "radeon" 6.13.1 or higher driver only in this case with OI_148/Solaris 11 Express.

The ATI Radeon HD 6*** series graphic adapters are compatible with the radeon driver as well (PCI ID and tweaks aside).

~ Ken Mays


--- On Sun, 12/26/10, Edward Martinez <mindbender_1 at live.com> wrote:

> From: Edward Martinez <mindbender_1 at live.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IO_b148 on an ATI HD 5770: Xorg failure / black screen
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 5:05 AM
> On 12/26/10 05:34, Robin Axelsson
> wrote:
> > I have tried using various configurations ranging from
> the system's automatic setup (i.e. no xorg.conf) to using
> various custom made xorg.conf files where I tried enforcing
> different drivers such as the VESA driver and different
> screen resolutions. None of these attempts has managed to
> produce an image signal in Xorg to any kind of monitor.
> > 
> > I'm using an XFX Radeon HD 5770 1GB version for GPU.
> > 
> > The monitor I'm using is connected to the HDMI port of
> the graphics adapter and it works fine. When booting into
> Windows 7 I get a full 1080p screen resolution in 32bpp and
> I even get sound. I have tried booting the system up with an
> older analog VGA monitor but the screen is still black on
> it.
> > 
> > - Robin.
> > 
> 
>    Seems like the Radeon HD 5770; 
> codenamed  Evergreen (R800) is not supported by Xorg's
> radeonhd driver:
> 
> 
>    The /radeonhd/ driver supports video
> cards based on
> 
>    * R500 style hardware: R5xx, RV5xx,
> RS6xx, RS740, M52 and up
>    * R600 style hardware: R6xx, RV6xx,
> RS780, M64 and up
>    * R700 style hardware: RV7xx
> 
> 
>       http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd#SupportedHardware
>       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon
> 
> 
>   OI booted with GUI on my gentoo workstation with a
> RadeonHD 4670 (R700 chipset)
>   I can only suggest to downgrade to an R700 based
> card.
> 
>   Regards
>    Edward
> 
> 
> 
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