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

[ken mays]

Hi Lou,

As for Solaris/OpenSolaris-based distros - like OI_148, consider current Xorg radeon driver support as "2D" only.

Official support for 'advanced' 3D functionality on OpenSolaris-based distros is in use of the Nvidia commercial driver and GPUs. Intel GPUs also are still supported for 3D functionality.

~ Ken Mays



--- On Sun, 12/26/10, Lou Picciano <loupicciano at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Lou Picciano <loupicciano at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IO_b148 on an ATI HD 5770: Xorg failure / black screen
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 2:46 PM
> Ken, 
> 
> 
> Thanks for these clarifications re Radeon, btw... 
> 
> 
> So, in an abundance of over-clarification: For my HD 3870,
> I've been resigned to using the vesa driver so far with this
> card; is this still the state of play? 
> 
> 
> I do understand from others here that I shouldn't expect
> any 3D functionality with this card, and that there's no way
> to use the card's processor to generate the graphical
> desktop we might try to send out via VNC, or other virtual
> desktop s'ware. Is all of this still true? 
> 
> 
> Lou 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ken mays" <maybird1776 at yahoo.com>
> 
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> 
> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 2:11:39 PM 
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] IO_b148 on an ATI HD
> 5770: Xorg failure / black screen 
> 
> 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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