Puh, I’m out of the game, but maybe Adrian or someone else has a hint? Could you post your xorg.log file? Normally xorg detects the card by itself.
Is the Nvidia card working? I guess no, because Debian uses a Kernel pagesize of 64KiB, IIRC? Nouveau needs a pagesize of 4KiB. Regards Karl > Am 31.01.2021 um 19:47 schrieb Johannes Brakensiek <m...@codingpastor.de>: > > Hello Karl, > > On 31 Jan 2021, at 14:40, Karl wrote: > >> as you can see in the picture, q66 is using a 6470. >> >> Coincidentally, I just found a post in the Linux on PowerPC Mac Facebook >> group from someone who also uses a 5770 on Void Linux. He also had problems. >> But then changed his xorg file back to the original and it worked. His 5770 >> was from a MacPro by the way ;-) >> >> Christian Zigotzky uses a 6970 in his X5000, IIRC. All Terascale GPUs should >> work. Also a R5 230. > > encouraged by your report I put the 5770 back in. > > I checked the xorg config - there is none. I blacklisted the nouveau module, > made a new ramfs, installed grub and so on. But the boot process hangs at the > point where the radeon module is loaded. With „nomodeset“ and having the > NVidia card connected it gives the error message about missing UMS/KMS at the > point (and boots). So I’d expect driver loading/mode setting to happen there, > but it does not. > > Any helpful idea out there? > > Thanks > Johannes
