Xorg not detecting radeon

Jean37 · 2014-01-19 14:57:12

Hi

I am trying to get Xorg to detect my graphic card but with no success.

Motherboard: Z77X-UD3H
Graphic card: Radeon R9 280

I have read the following wiki article :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … #Gummiboot

I tried 2 drivers :
- One from the official repo : xf86-video-ati
- Current one installed : xf86-video-ati-git from http://pkgbuild.com/~lcarlier/mesa-git/

# startx

http://bpaste.net/show/169766/

# dmesg

http://bpaste.net/show/169765/

# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf

http://bpaste.net/show/169769/

# lsmod | grep radeon

http://bpaste.net/show/169780/

Note : No extra kernel command-line added.
Note2: Added radeon to MODULES in mkinitcpio.conf

Can anyone give me any clue as to how to get Xorg to detect my radeon ?

Thanks

Jean37

deags · 2014-01-19 17:33:34

I am far from an expert, but have you tried not having a 20-radeon.conf file? Try letting xorg try and work that out itself.

Not important as it shouldn't be a fix: But for your mkinitcpio.conf changes to have an effect you will need to regenerate the image using mkinitcpio.

Please provide the relevant output of lspci

Jean37 · 2014-01-19 17:42:02

Thanks for your help.

deags wrote:

I am far from an expert, but have you tried not having a 20-radeon.conf file? Try letting xorg try and work that out itself.

Yes I have.

deags wrote:

Not important as it shouldn't be a fix: But for your mkinitcpio.conf changes to have an effect you will need to regenerate the image using mkinitcpio.

Yes I ran

# sudo mkinitcpio -p linux

deags wrote:

Please provide the relevant output of lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev c4)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c4)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev c4)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 8 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Z77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Hawaii PRO
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device aac8
03:00.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VL80x xHCI USB 3.0 Controller (rev 03)
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 30)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0)
07:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9172 SATA 6Gb/s Controller (rev 11)

Cheers.

deags · 2014-01-20 05:58:50

Edit: Misread, disregard. No delete post function?

I'm afraid I don't think I can help, good luck fixing this. If you want to get up and running you can try using xf86-video-vesa; it won't be good but you should get X started for now.

Last edited by deags (2014-01-20 06:04:56)

Lone_Wolf · 2014-01-20 17:15:28

jean, have you tried with both mesa-git and xf86-video-git installed ?

Jean37 · 2014-01-20 21:17:10

Hi Lone_Wolf

Yes. They are currently both installed on my system.

clfarron4 · 2014-01-20 21:21:25

One thing... Is that card actually supported by the Open Source Radeon driver? I've had a look at the feature matrix and I don't see anything for Volcanic Islands series cards...

Jean37 · 2014-01-20 21:24:04

Lone_Wolf wrote:

jean, have you tried with both mesa-git and xf86-video-git installed ?

You meant to say xf86-video-ati-git, didn't you? I couldn't find a package called xf86-video-git.

Lone_Wolf · 2014-01-21 15:12:53

yes, i meant xf86-video-ati-git .

Cifarron, i wondered about the same thing and found some references to Hawaii support in commits for xf86-video-ati-git .

This R290x review on phoronix also mentions the mesa radeonsi driver has support for that card (although support seems very limited) .

Edit :

Jean37, looking at that review you might want to try amd catalyst driver instead of the open source one.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2014-01-21 15:16:36)

Jean37 · 2014-01-22 22:50:10

Thanks guys.

I did install catalyst drivers in the end. Everything works fine. I would have preferred to install the open source one though.

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