ATI Radeon HD 5770 support by ubuntu 10.04?

[ezra1964]

Hi,

I have the same problem but booting with usb and unetbootin.
Someone could it works with live cd to can install 10.04?
Do you know if there is a but open?

Many thanks and sorry for my english!

put the cd in and wait for the boot menu
hit the escape key to get to the command line
type:
live-install xforcevesa

[drreed]

i have dvi monitor but doesn't work for me.

So which is the primary output on your video card, vga or dvi? If it's dvi then that sounds like it negates that workaround for booting (at least for some people). I'm thinking of buying one of those cards, I need something that will do OpenCL and is reasonably priced.

[yozgoesdigital]

I need something that will do OpenCL

http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

As this links shows it is not suported (yet) for this card

[SeePU]

I'm bumping this since I'm considering the 5770 and maybe... (though, a longshot)...the 5850.

I think the 5770 would suit my needs but with the open source driver not ready yet, one has to use the fglrx driver.

In Lucid, I think one has to go through quite a process to have the binary drivers working and the subsequent features working? I want to know what to do if there's any issues coming up. I've read stuff like tearing, colours going strange (slight tints?) or flickering? The screen going black could just be the driver not optimized?

Comments?

[jhonnyas]

Here's my Experience with the Sapphire ATI Radeon HD5770:

Ubuntu 9.10 works out of the box on low resolution using D-sub or DVI or HDMI.
I upgraded to 10.04 my whole system crashed. New version of GRUB2 got ****ed up badly, I was not able to boot my Win7 nor I was able to repair it with LiveCD or USB.

Trying to boot 10.04 off from a CD gives blank screen.
I downloaded the alternative install Disk, i could finally install ubuntu with that.
For Login, there was no screen, so i started it in single mode. Downloaded ATI catalyst Driver 10.2 (back in the day) I just don't have time right now to play with it, made it executable and installed it with more or less success. Next time I tried to log in, I finally got a nice login screen, with a whopping resolution of 640x480 with the drivers and I was unable to change to a higher resolution. Got rid of Ubuntu 10.04 and went back to 9.10 no problems there. Honestly I think you should wait till it gets fixed.

One more Wonder for those who use ATI 5xxx Series on Linux. Support is NULL. The FLDRX drivers are useless if you want to run Direct3D apps in WINE, they will crash due to an FBO bug (which has not been fixed for god knows how long. See EVE Online and others on wineHQ.)

Any1 whos trying to buy an ATI 5750/5770 and is a Pure Linux Fundamentalist and wants to play some games on WINE, that person maybe should go to hell for some R and R before he finally gets it right. Took me 2 sleepless nights to figure out how EVE Online can be made to work without crashing it, but that reduced the cards computational power.

My Advice is this: If you are dual booting Windows / Linux and do some Gaming you should be fine with this decision, as long as you don't mind rebooting to Windows to play some games.

If you wanna use purely Linux, go with NVIDIA.

[SeePU]

Thanks for your perspective, jhonnyas. Sorry to hear you've had so much trouble. I do hear you. I tend to feel that ATI/AMD want to support Linux but just can't or won't invest enough into it. I don't know whether that means enough money for developers or to test drivers or what.

Have you been to the 'Phoronix' site? It seems like the best place to go for ATI owners. Especially for the newest Evergreen cards. Ubuntu is supposed to be one of the few 'official distros' supported but it sounds like there's still major problems. Is there a 'safe mode' one can boot up to avoid the black screens? I have read a few reports that seems to indicate you should download and install the flgrx drivers directly from the ATI/AMD site and install those ones. Why the Ubuntu graphics drivers installer can't accomodate the newest drivers, I don't know.

It seems that some users install a 'beta' driver (aka newest but unreleased binary driver) and some versions work and some don't. Trial and error?

I'd like to get an Evergreen card but I am not sure whether I want to tolerate these issues/problems. I'm familiar with the process to get Nvidia cards to work so this ATI/AMD process sounds like another can of worms. Not sure whether it's a new experience I want to know. The Evergreen cards seem to be a good deal, price/performance-wise, though. But, I use Linux as well as Windows. :-/

[jhonnyas]

Thanks for your perspective, jhonnyas. Sorry to hear you've had so much trouble. I do hear you. I tend to feel that ATI/AMD want to support Linux but just can't or won't invest enough into it. I don't know whether that means enough money for developers or to test drivers or what.

Have you been to the 'Phoronix' site? It seems like the best place to go for ATI owners. Especially for the newest Evergreen cards. Ubuntu is supposed to be one of the few 'official distros' supported but it sounds like there's still major problems. Is there a 'safe mode' one can boot up to avoid the black screens? I have read a few reports that seems to indicate you should download and install the flgrx drivers directly from the ATI/AMD site and install those ones. Why the Ubuntu graphics drivers installer can't accomodate the newest drivers, I don't know.

It seems that some users install a 'beta' driver (aka newest but unreleased binary driver) and some versions work and some don't. Trial and error?

I'd like to get an Evergreen card but I am not sure whether I want to tolerate these issues/problems. I'm familiar with the process to get Nvidia cards to work so this ATI/AMD process sounds like another can of worms. Not sure whether it's a new experience I want to know. The Evergreen cards seem to be a good deal, price/performance-wise, though. But, I use Linux as well as Windows. :-/

Yea, there is a safe mode in Ubuntu. When you boot up (assuming you only have ubuntu installed) press Esc after POST, and then select the second menu option called safe mode. If you have more than Ubuntu installed then GRUB by default should appear and you can select safe mode (or single mode) i am not sure how its exactly called. You can also edit your current boot option and remove at the end the stuff called : quiet splash and replace it with single. That way you can get safe mode too.
There is no GUI in safe mode. All you got is a nice terminal or command console. But everyone who is trying to get to know any linux has to have some proficiency at using the command line. From the command line you can use Lynx to go to the ATI/AMD site and download the driver or use wget if you have the exact address.
AFAIK there is no way to install ubuntu 10.04 in graphical mode, at least i tried on all 3 ports and i got no screen. So I used the alternative installer instead. If you installed a Debian before you shouldnt have any problems with it.
As I have said before if you are gonna use 3D apps like on a workstation it would probably work out, but as for games its a nogo.

[SeePU]

Thanks for the info/update!

'Just thought I'd bump this. I read that Catalyst/Fglrx driver 10.5 is out now. Did you try the update/upgraded driver? If so, any better????

When you boot up, which ATI drive is installed by default? Maybe this is one source of the problems? Obviously, the open source ATI driver, if installed by default, will NOT WORK yet with Evergreen cards. I assume you CAN'T have BOTH types of drivers installed or at least, activated.

So, there must be steps for using ONE driver.

I only know the nuances or should I say nuisances (lol) of using the Nvidia driver... sorry, for my ignorance regarding the ATI stuff...

[Anunnaki]

Thanks for the info/update!

'Just thought I'd bump this. I read that Catalyst/Fglrx driver 10.5 is out now. Did you try the update/upgraded driver? If so, any better????

When you boot up, which ATI drive is installed by default? Maybe this is one source of the problems? Obviously, the open source ATI driver, if installed by default, will NOT WORK yet with Evergreen cards. I assume you CAN'T have BOTH types of drivers installed or at least, activated.

So, there must be steps for using ONE driver.

I only know the nuances or should I say nuisances (lol) of using the Nvidia driver... sorry, for my ignorance regarding the ATI stuff...

I just installed it myself, and the screen tearing is still pretty bad. This is very frustrating. I shouldn't have to boot up Windows just to watch a damn video. Don't think I'll be buying ATI again.

[JoePits]

put the cd in and wait for the boot menu
hit the escape key to get to the command line
type:
live-install xforcevesa

worked for me thanks!