Radeon discrete graphics issues

Hi list! I've been struggling with this issue for the past week (admittedly in the evenings only), and I've finally run into a dead end and thus I'm now throwing myself upon the mercy of the @misc list in the hope someone will be able to provide some direction on how to solve the issue. I'm using

Re: Radeon discrete graphics issues

Your dmesg says ... vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon HD 8600" rev 0x00 ... but I don't see this listed in "man 4 radeon". https://man.openbsd.org/radeon Cannot say for sure but it may not be supported. Have a look at the log for X. Might provide info. Good luck

Re: Radeon discrete graphics issues

I assume the radeon firmware is in /etc/firmware. If not download http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/6.2/radeondrm-firmware-20150927.tgz and untar it in that directory. (Sorry if I'm teaching granny to suck eggs.)

Re: Radeon discrete graphics issues

@Maurice, Don't worry about teaching me to suck eggs, I'd rather cover all the bases :) I've run "fw_update -a" to ensure that the drivers are installed and where they need to be. (Bit overkill I know, but I'd rather be sure at this point.) As for support from the Radeon driver as linked above, i

Re: Radeon discrete graphics issues

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 07:43:03PM +, Timothy Legge wrote: > @Maurice, Don't worry about teaching me to suck eggs, I'd rather cover all > the bases :) > > I've run "fw_update -a" to ensure that the drivers are installed and where > they need to be. (Bit overkill I know, but I'd rather be sure

Re: Radeon discrete graphics issues

I copy/pasted "OLAND Radeon HD 8000 series" from the radeon(4) man page under the section header "Supported Hardware". Maybe I'm missing something. On 19 November 2017 at 01:08, Jonathan Gray wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 07:43:03PM +, Timothy Legge wrote:

Re: Radeon discrete graphics issues

The userland driver that page describes won't work without kernel support. For GCN parts like OLAND it is worse as they require Mesa to be built against LLVM libraries for 2D acceleration. And LLVM libraries/llvm-config etc are not built/shipped in base. On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 01:16:19AM +,

Re: Radeon discrete graphics issues

So after re-reading man pages and a quick consultation of some Wikipedia pages, kernel support for most Radeon cards upto those in the Northern Islands family are supported. That ties in nicely with what you've outlined as thats the family that came before they made the change to the GCN Microarchi

Re: Radeon discrete graphics issues

There is kernel support for the initial GCN parts (CAPE VERDE, PITCAIRN, TAHITI) acceleration for those requires userland changes. The last generation with full acceleration is Northern Islands. On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 09:04:40AM +, Timothy Legge wrote: > So after re-reading man pages and a q

Re: Radeon discrete graphics issues

I knew the solution would be something simple, more than likely related to my inability to read properly :D Thanks for the pointers Jonathan, sorry it took a while for the point to stick. I guess the next natural question is, can I put my hardware to use helping develop support for this? I'm no pr