HD5770 bringup

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Dave Witbrodt <dawitbro at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 04/10/2010 09:51 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>> So I added xdm to the default start level, rebooted and I get the gdm
>>> login screen. I'm up and running. (Well, sort of. No mouse and
>>> keyboard but that probably isn't anything serious. Says it cannot find
>>> the evdev driver...)
>>>
>> <SNIP>
>>
>> This was an ABI mismatch. Recompiled the evdev driver and away I go.
>> This is my first email from the new machine.
>>
>> Radeon HD 5770 up and running!
>
> Cool!  As was the case for me, the DVI cable worked perfectly with
> Evergreen.  Still don't understand why the manufacturer of my new monitor
> didn't include DVI inputs; if they had, I'd be leaving my HD5750 installed
> all of the time.
>
>
> Congrats,
> Dave W.
>

Thanks for your help. I'm going to read through your other response in
more depth tomorrow and keep looking at this. So far I see no
artifacts on the screen and glxgears on this machines (i7-980x with
the 5770) does about 940FPS which is fine.

I do need to figure out why the console text is gone after udev. I do
use the console quite a lot so I need to get that working, but I'm
fine in a terminal most of the time so nothing to worry too much
about. Dual monitors is a long term requirement but I can live this
way for a little while.

Again, thanks to you and everyone else who answered.

Cheers,
Mark