Hi Lou, I prefer the "radeon" driver which should be autodetected for your card. I tested this with my current radeon cards and it works fine (but let me know on your specific card how things go).
Best to create a Xorg.conf file for advanced settings and custom monitor resolutions/dual & triple-head monitors. ~ Ken Mays --- On Fri, 10/1/10, Lou Picciano <loupicci...@comcast.net> wrote: > From: Lou Picciano <loupicci...@comcast.net> > Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Radeon HD 3870 Best Practices? > To: "Discussion OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> > Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 1:07 PM > > OpenIndiana Friends, > > > Am trying to do a new install of oi-dev-147 on a machine > with a Radeon HD 3870: So far, am using the VESA install, > and we do get to the GUI desktop install environment. The > Device Driver Utility correctly identifies the card. From > this point, is there a preferred driver or package available > which we can install? Or, what's the correct one for later? > > > > Alternatively, as this drive already has a 'raw' oi-dev-147 > install on it, can I boot into the console using that > existing install, then tweak my Xorg.conf and drivers from > there? - OI does not have a 'safe mode', as I recall. > > > What would the 'Best Practices' approach be? > > > Don't know if this card represents an 'edge case', relevant > bits are here: > It is a (Diamond Viper) Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCIe. > Model: ML30 3870PE4512SB > > > Tks. Lou > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss