hello:
I recently put a couple of Dell optiplex 7010 machiens in operation using
OpenBSD 5.6 and 5.7. Both machines have a radeon card in them.
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon HD 7470" rev 0x00
I ran into the video going to gray screen during the boot process when it
tried to switch to high res. I disabled the radeondrm temporarily to get
the machines to boot.
I found the radeondrm-firmware-20131002p2.tgz at firmware.openbsd.org
Trying to use pkd_add would not work because it kept reporting the archive
was corrupt. I believe the problem was actually the signature in the
archive wasn't current and could not be validated against the certificates
in /etc/ssl or /etc/signify.
I ended up manually loading the firmware in /etc/firmware, which resulted
in bypassing verifying the archive, but the archive expanded without a
problem. The machines run fine with the contents of that archive in
place.
Is there something wrong with that archive?
peter
