[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue

[Mikolaj Walkiewicz]

Yep, unfortunately. Thanks for your time and help I will report that.



On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropoulos at yahoo.com
> wrote:

> >Apostolos,
> >I configured as
> you told, but I also added --disable-kms to options. I finally managed
> to
>
> >install the drivers which is huge progress and after few tests I
> found out that I had to
>
> >do following things to get Xserver load the
> radeon driver
>
>
> OK I forgot this :-( Sorry.
>
> >(EE) RADEON(0): Chipset: "AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series" (ChipID = 0x6739)
> requires KMS
>
> The driver demands KMS for your card and currently KMS is not supported in
> OpenIndiana.
>
> Dead-end for the time being. Let us hope it will come to Illumos really
> soon. Please report
> this to the OpenIndiana mailing -list.
>
>
> A.S.
>
>
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> Apostolos Syropoulos
> Xanthi, Greece
> http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo
> http://asyropoulos.wordpress.com
> http://hypercomputation.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
>


-- 
Best regards/Pozdrawiam,

Mikołaj Wałkiewicz

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