[OpenIndiana-discuss] Radeon HD 3870 Best Practices?

[ken mays]

Hi Lou,

I prefer the "radeon" driver which should be autodetected for your card.
I tested this with my current radeon cards and it works fine (but let me know on your specific card how things go).

Best to create a Xorg.conf file for advanced settings and custom monitor resolutions/dual & triple-head monitors.

~ Ken Mays



--- On Fri, 10/1/10, Lou Picciano <loupicciano at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Lou Picciano <loupicciano at comcast.net>
> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Radeon HD 3870 Best Practices?
> To: "Discussion OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 1:07 PM
> 
> OpenIndiana Friends, 
> 
> 
> Am trying to do a new install of oi-dev-147 on a machine
> with a Radeon HD 3870: So far, am using the VESA install,
> and we do get to the GUI desktop install environment. The
> Device Driver Utility correctly identifies the card. From
> this point, is there a preferred driver or package available
> which we can install? Or, what's the correct one for later?
> 
> 
> 
> Alternatively, as this drive already has a 'raw' oi-dev-147
> install on it, can I boot into the console using that
> existing install, then tweak my Xorg.conf and drivers from
> there? - OI does not have a 'safe mode', as I recall. 
> 
> 
> What would the 'Best Practices' approach be? 
> 
> 
> Don't know if this card represents an 'edge case', relevant
> bits are here: 
> It is a (Diamond Viper) Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCIe. 
> Model: ML30 3870PE4512SB 
> 
> 
> Tks. Lou 
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