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ram1nx

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Registered: 2010-08-16

Posts: 9

ati hd5470 - can not boot

hi,
i have a new laptop with an ati hd5470 graphic-chip on it. when i try to start an arch livecd, it ends with an black-screen-of-death. what can i do?
thx

Last edited by ram1nx (2010-08-16 15:03:14)

Doehni

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-05-19

Posts: 175

Re: ati hd5470 - can not boot

Try disabling Kernel Mode Setting (KMS), which is enabled by default.

Add this to the kernel line in the grub file (/boot/grub/menu.lst):

radeon.modeset=0

ram1nx

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Registered: 2010-08-16

Posts: 9

Re: ati hd5470 - can not boot

unfortunatelly it doesn't has any effect.

cubeist

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Registered: 2010-08-01

Posts: 36

Re: ati hd5470 - can not boot

try

nomodeset

instead of

radeon.modeset=0

ram1nx

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Registered: 2010-08-16

Posts: 9

Re: ati hd5470 - can not boot

thx, this worked for me. now i can boot, but the black-screen-of-death appears when i try to start x. i allready installed xf86-video-ati and my xorg-log is empty...

agapito

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From: Who cares.

Registered: 2008-11-13

Posts: 645

Re: ati hd5470 - can not boot

Free driver is unusable with ATI HD 5XXX Hardware

Install catalyst driver. Read wiki.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst

Last edited by agapito (2010-08-17 09:48:03)

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cubeist

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Registered: 2010-08-01

Posts: 36

Re: ati hd5470 - can not boot

have you taken a look through this wiki? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ati

it offers many suggestions, especially this section which details which packages you need to run the radeon or radeonhd driver:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ati … figuration

Galera

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2009-09-08

Posts: 31

Re: ati hd5470 - can not boot

Have you installed the readeonhd drivers, or ati drivers?
I used to had a similar problem with HD3200 and it solved by using xf86-video-ati drivers instead of xf86-video-radeonhd.

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ram1nx

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Registered: 2010-08-16

Posts: 9

Re: ati hd5470 - can not boot

hi,
i tried both. there is not even a logfile.

schen

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Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 468

Re: ati hd5470 - can not boot

Have you tried catalyst? The free drivers lag behind catalyst in terms of new card support.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI_Catalyst

ram1nx

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Registered: 2010-08-16

Posts: 9

Re: ati hd5470 - can not boot

i don't want to use catalyst - i hate it. wiki says, that ati-driver and radeonhd should support my card. anyone who made it work?

cubeist

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Registered: 2010-08-01

Posts: 36

Re: ati hd5470 - can not boot

I should have paid more attention the type of graphics card... doh!  The initial support for the "evergreen" line of AMD chips is just filtering to the opensource driver now (20th of Aug)
see:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … &px=ODUzMQ

I don't think the new changes have filtered into the packages available from arch repos, so you will probably have to compile from source, or use catalyst for the short term

schen

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Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 468

Re: ati hd5470 - can not boot

Use xf86-video-ati-git.