VTX Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR3 not working
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 9:22 pm
I heard that the upcoming version of Warp3D might probably support only Radeon HD 6xxx cards,
so I wanted to dump my current Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 for a newer 6670.
I have two 6670 cards:
1) Asus Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR5 that works fine.
2) VTX Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR3 that does not works under AmigaOS.
The Asus (1) has the problem of being double size.
I must give up both the PCI-e 4x and 1x, the 4x because is occupied by the video card, the 1x because I must use the onboard Sata port to attach the hard disk.
Here are the serial kernel log of the Asus, using "serial munge debuglevel=9" as a boot parameter.
http://www.locati.it/mario/sam460/Sam46 ... _debug.txt
So I bought the VTX (2) that has a slower video memory but it is a single size card.
Once installed the VTX apparently boots just fine, I see the u-boot screen as usual, but AmigaOS hang after loading the entire kicklayout, I end up with a black screen.
Here are the serial kernel log of the VTX.
http://www.locati.it/mario/sam460/Sam46 ... _debug.txt
I wanted to check if AmigaOS loaded using only the internal SM502 so I set u-boot to use it at boot, then I turned off.
I putted back my old Sapphire Radeon HD 4650, booted AmigaOS, selected a screen mode of the internal SM502, saved and turned off.
Putted back the VTX, and AmigaOS booted correctly using the SM502 output.
Screenmode see the VTX, but if I test any of its screenmode I get a seriously corrupted video output then the system simply hang, the only possible exit is hardware reset.
Tried many different resolutions and color depth (tried also 8bit) combinations, and each time I have to reset.
I finally checked the VTX with both my Lubuntu 14.04 and my 14.10 installation for Sam460 (thanks Spectree660!)) and the system works as expected.
The only problem is that some sparse pixel of random colors appears here and there, but nothing too disturbing.
My system details
Sam460 1.15Ghz 2GB RAM
PCI-e 4x Sil 3512, with 1 hard disk 2.5" and 1 cdrom
PCI-e 1x Envy 24 HT
AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6
RadeonHD.chip A-Eon registered v1.0, 29 March 2014
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so I wanted to dump my current Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 for a newer 6670.
I have two 6670 cards:
1) Asus Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR5 that works fine.
2) VTX Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR3 that does not works under AmigaOS.
The Asus (1) has the problem of being double size.
I must give up both the PCI-e 4x and 1x, the 4x because is occupied by the video card, the 1x because I must use the onboard Sata port to attach the hard disk.
Here are the serial kernel log of the Asus, using "serial munge debuglevel=9" as a boot parameter.
http://www.locati.it/mario/sam460/Sam46 ... _debug.txt
So I bought the VTX (2) that has a slower video memory but it is a single size card.
Once installed the VTX apparently boots just fine, I see the u-boot screen as usual, but AmigaOS hang after loading the entire kicklayout, I end up with a black screen.
Here are the serial kernel log of the VTX.
http://www.locati.it/mario/sam460/Sam46 ... _debug.txt
I wanted to check if AmigaOS loaded using only the internal SM502 so I set u-boot to use it at boot, then I turned off.
I putted back my old Sapphire Radeon HD 4650, booted AmigaOS, selected a screen mode of the internal SM502, saved and turned off.
Putted back the VTX, and AmigaOS booted correctly using the SM502 output.
Screenmode see the VTX, but if I test any of its screenmode I get a seriously corrupted video output then the system simply hang, the only possible exit is hardware reset.
Tried many different resolutions and color depth (tried also 8bit) combinations, and each time I have to reset.
I finally checked the VTX with both my Lubuntu 14.04 and my 14.10 installation for Sam460 (thanks Spectree660!)) and the system works as expected.
The only problem is that some sparse pixel of random colors appears here and there, but nothing too disturbing.
My system details
Sam460 1.15Ghz 2GB RAM
PCI-e 4x Sil 3512, with 1 hard disk 2.5" and 1 cdrom
PCI-e 1x Envy 24 HT
AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6
RadeonHD.chip A-Eon registered v1.0, 29 March 2014
All updates from Amiupdate