HD5770 bringup

[Dave Witbrodt]

On 04/10/2010 07:13 PM, Daniel Klaffenbach wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> I can't find a package called libdrm_radeon in portage. Is this
>> possibly part of xorg-server-1.7? I do have libdrm and xf86-video-ati
>> but neither show a kms flag.
> libdrm with "VIDEO_CARDS=radeon" should be fine.
>
>> Again maybe that's on newer versions?
> You should either use libdrm-9999 or at least libdrm-2.4.20.
>
>> I'm not against going to a testing xorg-server but a number of Gentoo
>> people are having trouble so I wouldn't go there without a good
>> reason.
> You can use the keyworded xorg-server package from the official portage
> tree (1.7.*). I'm not having any problems with it. But I guess if you
> want you could also stick with 1.6.5 for now.
>
>> I'll investigate unmasking
>> the newer stuff, but I don't see libdrm_radeon anywhere as of yet.
> You only need to unmask kernel 2.6.24, xf86-video-ati-9999, libdrm-9999
> (or 2.4.20) and mesa-9999 (recommended).
> BTW: the "-9999" ebuilds come from the X11 overlay.

These look like some fine Gentoo-specific tips, Mark.


> I do not know about 5xxx and firmware, but with my 3870 I need to
> compile some firmware-blob into the kernel (option in kernel config).
> Maybe this also applies to 5xxx cards.

Firmware files have become available for Evergreen cards, and recent 
commits to the special "drm-radeon-testing" and "drm-next" git trees 
make it necessary for the firmware to be used.  However, I don't believe 
that those commits have been incorporated to the 2.6.34-rc3 kernel.

Maybe David Airlie or Alex Deucher could respond to this issue more 
definitively?


Dave W.