[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #8011: Radeon HD 4550 display problem
- From: "ttcoder" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:02:41 -0000
#8011: Radeon HD 4550 display problem
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Reporter: lalit | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Drivers/Graphics/radeon_hd | Version: R1/alpha3
Resolution: | Keywords: Radeon hd 4550
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by ttcoder):
I'm not 100% positive but I think the VESA driver is active, not the
RadeonHD one; and the "basic" Radeon driver cannot handle the card:
{{{
KERN: Radeon - init_hardware: Version: 5.1.6.0
1532 KERN: Radeon - Radeon_CardDetect: no supported devices found
}}}
For upgrading to a nightly, it takes just a few minutes once the RAW image
is downloaded, using a simple (but oddly, not publicized very much)
process:
- download the latest Raw (not anyboot nor CD) nightly, and uncompress it
- double-click the uncompressed .image file, a new virtual partition will
appear on your desktop, called simply "Haiku" (hence it's important that
your real/physical harddrive partition not be named simply "Haiku",
otherwise it entails confusion)
- double-click the "Haiku" virtual drive, and copy its "system" and
"common" folders to your real Haiku partition.. You'll probably want to
move those away first (or rename them) rather than clobber/overwrite
them.. That way, you may revert back the upgrade if needed.
- wait for the hard-drive to completely finish writing (BFS sync) and then
reboot without further modifications nor launching anything.. Some ugprade
paths don't like having one version of Haiku loaded in memory and another
on the HDD..
That's about it. The above will copy the default syslog and swap file from
the image though, so a more clean way to do it would be to use Installer
(choosing the virtual Haiku drive as source, and another partition as
destination) rather than use Tracker to copy files.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8011#comment:6>
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