Re: ATI Radeon HD 5600?
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:37:55 -0400, Dave Witbrodt
wrote:
> On 04/10/2010 10:37 AM, vr wrote:
>> I just picked up a laptop that has that display adapter.
>> lspci:
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon
>> HD
>> 5600 Series]
>>
>>
>> The highest resolution I've been able to get so far is 1400x1040 but
>> using
>> the VESA driver.
>> xrandr:
>> Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 1400 x 1050, maximum 1400 x 1050
>> default connected 1400x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>> 1400x1050 60.0*
>> 1280x1024 61.0
>> 1280x960 61.0
>> 1152x864 60.0
>> 1024x768 61.0
>> 800x600 61.0
>
> The VESA driver only allows you to use 4:3 modes, with none of the nice
> features (acceleration, power management) that the Evergreen hardware
> has to offer.
>
> The proprietary ATI fglrx driver only works with versions of the X
> server before 1.7. What version of Debian are you using? What version
> of the X server do you have installed? (Try 'apt-cache policy
> xserver-xorg-core'.)
>
I am using Unstable, last dist-upgraded as of 4/9
uname -r
2.6.32-3-amd64
With X server version:
xserver-xorg-core:
Installed: 2:1.7.6-2
Candidate: 2:1.7.6-2
Version table:
*** 2:1.7.6-2 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> Open source support (via "radeon", but not "radeonhd") for Evergreen
> cards has been starting to appear since February. Debian Sid has very
> recent versions of the "radeon" driver (xserver-xorg-video-radeon, v.
> 6.13.0-1) which includes all of the X support made available so far
> upstream; but you will really want a very new kernel if you want to take
> advantage of kernel mode setting. The Debian Kernel Team has backported
> a lot of DRM support from 2.6.33 into recent 2.6.32 kernels, and also
> has made available experimental 2.6.33 kernels. (I'm actually using
> 2.6.34-rc3 compiled from upstream because some Evergreen specific
> commits appeared yesterday which update Evergreen support, and I am
> testing a Radeon HD 5750 card which I own.)
>
Ahhh, OK! I installed xserver-xorg-video-radeon and set my driver to
"radeon" in xorg.conf.
I get 1920x1080 now. I'm not doing fancy window manager stuff ATM so I'm
not sure I'll take this further, for now.
Thank you!
> Some of this open source software has probably trickled into
> Squeeze/testing by now, if you are not using Sid and don't want to move
> to it.
>
>
>> I've tried to install the ATI driver from AMD's website but when I
>> specify
>> fglrx in xorg.conf X doesn't launch, but the module loads.
>> dmesg | grep fglrx
>> [ 12.403952] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.71.4 [Mar 2 2010] with
1
>> minors
>>
>> lsmod | grep fglrx
>> fglrx 2236840 0
>>
>> Does anyone have one of these working @ 1920x1080 resolution?
>> Or maybe offer some pointers to help me get up to 1920x1080?
>
> You need an old (pre-1.7) X server to use 'fglrx', and you have to make
> sure to install kernel headers matching the same version of the kernel
> you are using, for 'fglrx'. It's possible that ATI will release a new
> 'fglrx' this month (or next) which is compatible with X server 1.7.X.
> (I haven't been using 'fglrx', though; I'm only interested in testing
> the open drivers, and helping to get them to work. If you just want to
> use the card in a normal way, you should probably try to get 'fglrx' to
> work until more features are provided by the "radeon" driver later this
> year.)
>
>
> HTH,
> Dave W.
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