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

[ken mays]

Hi Mikolaj,

Great job on compiling the Xorg ATI Radeon 6.14.1 driver source.

The Xorg Radeon developers may help. I'll review tweaking it for solaris/opensolaris for performance/implementation using user-mode setting/KMS.

Usually you can place 'options radeon.modesetting=0' in /etc/modprobe*/radeon.conf or 'nomodesetting' in grub's menu.1st

Alan mentioned KMS is forthcoming, but this involves Oracle's upstream Xserver 1.9.x/1.10 (Xorg 7.6) migration.

For testing purposes:

# Ken Mays - OpenIndiana_148 xorg.conf - AMD Radeon HD 6990
# Xorg ATI Radeon 6.14.1, X Server 1.7.7, JDS_148 (GNOME 2.30.2)
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Section "Device"
Identifier "AMD Radeon HD 6990"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Dell 3008WFP"
Option "DPMS"
Horizsync 30-112
Vertrefresh 60-86
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "AMD Radeon HD 6990"
Monitor "Dell 3008WFP"
Defaultdepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "2560x1600" "1920x1080" 1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

~ Ken Mays



--- On Tue, 3/29/11, Mikolaj Walkiewicz <mikolaj.walkiewicz at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Mikolaj Walkiewicz <mikolaj.walkiewicz at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fw: Re: ATI radeon hd 6850 gnome issue
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 3:07 PM
> 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.
> >
> >
> > ----------------------
> > Apostolos Syropoulos
> > Xanthi, Greece
> > http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo
> > http://asyropoulos.wordpress.com
> > http://hypercomputation.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards/Pozdrawiam,
> 
> Mikołaj Wałkiewicz
> 
> :: mikolaj.walkiewicz at gmail.com
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