HD5770 bringup

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> OK, so I'm searching around for instructions on doing right this but
>>> I'm not finding them yet. That's leaving me poking around and of
>>> course that never goes well. I'll post some data and keep some records
>>> in case others try this again later. I don't want to post here too
>>> much and wear out my welcome but I really want to see a desktop today
>>> if possible.
>>
>> Don't use radeonhd, use -ati or radeon (same thing)
>>
>> Also get a really recent kernel with evergreen support for KMS, the UMS
>> support isn't great and will probbaby remain sub-par.
>>
>> Dave.
>>
>
> Dave,
>   Thanks. I'll switch back to radeon.
>
>   As for my kernel I'm on gentoo-sources-2.6.33-r1 which is the
> newest available through portage. Are you suggesting I have to go
> checkout something from kernel.org to make this work? I've got the
> Radeon KMS stuff set as modular. Do I need to enable it at boot time?
> On my i915 I do it like this in grub:
>

you need 2.6.34.

> kernel (hd0,6)/boot/bzImage-2.6.33-gentoo root=/dev/sda2 i915.modeset=1
>

KMS is enabled by default in 2.6.33+.  Just make sure you have
libdrm_radeon and xf86-video-ati (radeon) with kms support.

Alex

>  Recompiling for radeon instead of radeonhd. Back in awhile.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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