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karkhaz

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Registered: 2014-01-25

Posts: 79

ATI OSS radeon driver works on R9 cards, want to update wiki

I've just fitted an AMD R9 270 graphics board (this one) to my Arch system, and can confirm that it works flawlessly using the open source driver.

I'd like to update the wiki to state that the driver works on this new series of cards (i.e. Volcanic Islands), as the Overview section of the ATI page states that the latest supported chipset is Northern and Southern Islands. However, I'm not sure that this is wise yet, because

• This is just my anecdotal experience, and

• Even the feature matrix on the driver page doesn't state Volcanic Islands compatiability. (It goes up to Sea Islands, which is between Southern Islands and Volcanic Islands).

Have others successfully installed a card with this chipset using the OS drivers?

I'm hoping this will be of interest to Archers and Linux users in general, as multi-monitor support is a bit of a pain at the moment (either multiple graphics boards using Xinerama, or...) The board I bought is relatively cheap and has five outputs, so is a viable single-board solution.

Edit: ...aaand I take that back, only 4 of the outputs are working for some reason (One of the DVI ports isn't working. xrandr sees it, and even enables it and my mouse `disappears' off the edge of the screen if I move it to the DVI monitor, but the monitor is getting no signal).

Last edited by karkhaz (2014-02-20 16:19:26)