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From: Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon HD 4350 benchmark
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:04:19
Message-Id: 4D636762.7040805@asyr.hopto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon HD 4350 benchmark by Mick
1 on 02/21/2011 02:16 PM Mick wrote the following:
2 > On 21 February 2011 04:27, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 >> James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
4 >>
5 >>
6 >>> In the kernel, under the Generic section, I first tried:
7 >>> CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
8 >>> CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
9 >>> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon"
10 >>> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"
11 > This should have been:
12 >
13 > # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i FIRMWARE
14 > CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y
15 > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
16 > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/R700_rlc.bin"
17 > CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware/"
18 > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y
19 > # Firmware Drivers
20 > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP=y
21 >
22 >
23 > Also, check that you have the R700_rlc.bin in place:
24 >
25 > ls -la /lib/firmware/radeon/R700_rlc.bin
26 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Feb 15 19:40 /lib/firmware/radeon/R700_rlc.bin
27 >
28 > and emerge x11-drivers/radeon-ucode if it's not already there.
29 How do we know which firmware file to load for which graphics card?
30 (I have a Sapphire HD 5770 1GB GDDR5)

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