Radeon HD 5770 - drivers

RetroX · 2010-03-03 01:19:03

I know that this sounds somewhat stupid, but where can I download old versions of packages? I need xorg-server<1.7.0 for catalyst 10.1, and catalyst 8.10 doesn't seem to be installing.

I really wish that I could use the radeonhd driver, but my card apparently isn't supported.

Last edited by RetroX (2010-03-03 02:24:19)

kyeana · 2010-03-03 01:29:43

Have you tried the xf86-video-ati driver? What problems are you having? What card are you using?

RetroX · 2010-03-03 01:36:48

kyeana wrote:

Have you tried the xf86-video-ati driver? What problems are you having? What card are you using?

I've tried both the ATI and RadeonHD drivers. My card is a Radeon HD 5770; I've looked everywhere, and I can't seem to find a solution to make the driver work.

The problem is, simply, that whenever I try and use the driver, it becomes extremely slow and distorts into a blob-like mess of 70's colors (how's that for a description) whenever I use it. Also, under gnome-display-properties, it shows all of the display resolutions as 0 Hz.

However, it's normally fast and good as it normally should, except when I open any program that modifies the X display (games, Wine, etc).

Last edited by RetroX (2010-03-03 01:40:46)

Mr.Elendig · 2010-03-03 02:31:33

I have the same card, works with the [xorg-old] repo + catalyst 10.1 from aur

agapito · 2010-03-03 03:38:34

Mr.Elendig wrote:

I have the same card, works with the [xorg-old] repo + catalyst 10.1 from aur

+1

RetroX · 2010-03-03 21:42:32

Mr.Elendig wrote:

I have the same card, works with the [xorg-old] repo + catalyst 10.1 from aur

...that was the original intent of the topic; to ask where I could get the old xorg. But thank you for telling me; I'll try that.

Mr.Elendig · 2010-03-03 22:24:21

You can find the details about the repo in the ati bar & grill thread.

RetroX · 2010-03-03 23:37:45

Mr.Elendig wrote:

You can find the details about the repo in the ati bar & grill thread.

I've already found it via google.

But thank you, anyways.

nuclearsandwich · 2010-05-22 19:09:14

For those of us who have this card but would like to use the open source drivers can anyone offer some pointers into making that work.

I've experienced the issue of not getting tty's displayed after closing X described here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93035
I can type in commands, switch virtual terminals, and do anything one normally could. I just cannot see what I am doing. Ideally I'd also like to get kernel modesetting to work. Currently I cannot use KMS (early or late start)
Any help or guidance is appreciated. Thanks.

Mr.Elendig · 2010-05-23 20:03:17

The free driver does not support the card in any usable form yet. With 2.6.34 it can, if you are lucky, actually manage to display something in X, but you won't have any acceleration at all. (and it will only work with the drivers and tools from the git tree)

the 5xxx serire probably won't be usable with the free driver for alteast another 6 months.

nuclearsandwich · 2010-05-25 02:02:33

Thanks, that's good to know. Is it worth setting up the headache of proprietary drivers to have "nice things" like Xinerama and hardware acceleration or should I just wait?

Mr.Elendig · 2010-05-25 10:51:45

There is no real "headache", just use the catalyst-xorg18 repo. Easy as pacman -Syu && pacman -S catalyst

fabioamd87 · 2010-05-29 08:17:42

is possible to install it on current snapshot of Arch?

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andonuts_388 · 2010-05-29 10:26:58

I have a 5770 and after trying different drivers I fund that only vesa and fglrx seemed to work. I did this:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … repository

i.e., added this repo to my /etc/pacman.conf above [core]. Then you just need to run:

pacman -Syy
pacman -Suu
pacman -Rd libgl
pacman -S catalyst

If you have already installed xorg fully, you may also need to remove xorg-server and reinstall it from the [catalyst] repository (which should work with 'pacman -S xorg-server' if the [catalyst] repo has been placed correctly above [core] and [testing] if you are using [testing])

You will then need to run

ati --initial

if you need to make a xorg.conf file, if you already have one maybe remove it and run this anyway

I then ran

aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

because I have a single head setup although I don't think I needed to

You then need to edit /etc/rc.conf and add 'fglrx' minus the quotes to the MODULES=() array.

REBOOT

Once you've installed a desktop environment, you may find that the image doesn't fit your screen, to fix this first install qt with 'pacman -S qt' and the run 'amdcccle' as root (or 'gksudo amdcccle', but 'sudo amdcccle' should be fine).

Then click the [+] next to Display Manager then click DTV (1) if the option is there and go to the 'Adjustments' tab and drag the scaling options to 0% (Overscan).

That's what I did, of course, depending on your setup you may need to follow the Archwiki article differently.

Last edited by andonuts_388 (2010-05-29 18:46:08)

fabioamd87 · 2011-01-21 11:22:54

pacman -S catalyst????

but is't it in AUR?

Mr.Elendig · 2011-01-21 11:43:02

fabioamd87 wrote:

pacman -S catalyst????
but is't it in AUR?

1. old thread.
2. If you are going to necrobump, atleast read what was already posted

fabioamd87 · 2011-01-21 14:03:03

I didn't noticed the date, sorry...

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