On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:17:53AM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > I'm working my way throught the Xorg installation and getting close to > installing the drivers. Xorg hasn't quite caught up yet with my chip > which is Radeon HD 8610G, and I'm going to use the proprietary driver > from ATI. I'm asking for advice on when to install it. It's a > pre-compiled binary and installs with a script. Should I install it > when I install drivers for Xorg, or should I wait until I'm finished > with Xorg and install it before I start Xorg for the first time? > Ubuntu thinks this is a "Richland" ? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
Phoronix (yeah, I know, treat their advice with more than a pinch of salt!) thinks the Richland is supported in version 7.2.0 of xf86-video-ati. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQzMDU If that is true, the xorg radeon wiki at http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/ might help (as well as the gentoo wiki for firmware, of course). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
