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Hi Everyone,

If you've been following Trevor's blog you will know that work is being carried out to support HD7xxx cards under Linux. Here is a brief status report.

The latest kernels 3.8.7 and 3.9.0 will work with these cards IF the correct firmware has been compiled in.

For HD7750/7770 thats VERDE_rlc.bin VERDE_pfp.bin VERDE_me.bin VERDE_ce.bin VERDE_mc.bin
(Note HD7790 in a new chip and needs a new firmware.)

For HD7850/7870 thats PITCAIRN_rlc.bin etc

For HD7950/7970 Use TAHITI

The varsion of Xorg drivers supplied with current distributions (6.14) doesn't recognise these cards causing the xserver to fall back to the fbdev driver. This has a maximum resolution of 768 x 1024, so I've compiled 7.1 which will work better.

3D is causing a few problems, Currently I have the driver (radeonsi) compiled, but it won't start due to no dri on my 7750 card. Investigations are continuing.

Here is a link to the updated xorg drivers if you wish to test them:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2012/6/20/ ... eon710.zip

Notes:
Copy to /usr/xorg/modules/drivers/ as root

Copying radeon_drv.so will cause the xserver to restart!

There is no real need to use these unless you are using a HD7000 series card.

Regards
Darren

Hi All,

Seems 'Fileden.com' the cloud services provider I was using has suffered a complete disk failure and lost all the files I had stored there. Here is a new link to a (hopefully more reliable) copy of the xorg drivers.

Regards
Darren

http://share.cx.com/nHt6Z9

daz wrote:Hi All,

Seems 'Fileden.com' the cloud services provider I was using has suffered a complete disk failure and lost all the files I had stored there. Here is a new link to a (hopefully more reliable) copy of the xorg drivers.

Regards
Darren

http://share.cx.com/nHt6Z9

Thank you!

I guess I better ask

How do we get this "new firmware" for the 7970 card?

and, will it make it into the upcoming CD release?

Thanks for all your hard work Daz!

Slayer wrote:I guess I better ask

How do we get this "new firmware" for the 7970 card?

Hi Slayer,

You need the firmware package: https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware. After the installation you have to add some firmwares to the kernel config. Some radeon firmwares were added to the Kernel 3.10.0. For example for your 7970 card.

Best wishes,

Christian

Thanks for that xeno74