Radeon HD 6970

Psi15 · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 9:29 am Post subject: Radeon HD 6970

Hi!

With The X Server Configuration HOWTO I got my graphics card working very well, though I'm using the folling configuration at Device Drivers -> Generic Driver Options:

Neithan · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 14

I am not ATI user anymore but if I was I would need to see your lsmod output. Generally when alsamixer is not picking up your device correctly it means that either you need to compile built in support for some additional driver in your kernel or if you compile/compiled it as a module you need to make sure its loaded.
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Neithan · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 14

This is my "Device Drivers ---> Sound card support ---> <M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ---> PCI sound devices ---> Intel HD Audio" configuration, perhaps you only need to replace nvidia with ati (but again if you are building it as module make sure its loaded)

GES · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 3:32 pm Post subject: Re: Radeon HD 6970

Etal · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 1931

I had a similar problem. See if this helps: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6780264.html#6780264

(But be sure to have the right HD-Audio modules, as Neithan showed. In Linux 3.0.4 it's called "Build HDMI/DisplayPort HD-audio codec support" / CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_HDMI)
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Psi15 · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 5:25 pm Post subject:

@Etal:
The last one didn't help

Neithan · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 14

If you don't know what else to try, give "Build Analog Device HD-audio codec support" a go. But is your problem only that the sound doesn't work over HDMI or that your sound doesn't work at all?

This is my lsmod it's the minimum I needed.

chithanh · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 10:56 pm Post subject:

The open source driver does not yet support HDMI Audio on Northern Islands/Radeon 6000 series:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

There is code for that already but it is not yet public:
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?59680-So-what-about-Evergreen-HDMI-Audio

Psi15 · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:56 pm Post subject:

hmm...
that sounds reasonable. So I'm waiting

thx

Philipp

disi · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:44 pm Post subject:

Thanks, was wondering myself here about the alsamixer (though never used hdmi yet).
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schwarzygesetzlos · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:43 am Post subject:

Thanks for pointing out chithanh! I was also wondering why it didn't work on my HD5770, whereas it works on my HD4290.

Out of curiosity I tried the closed-source x11-drivers/ati-drivers. Now audio via HDMI is working!

Psi15 · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:34 pm Post subject:

hmm... kernel 3.0.6 doesn't seem to help

waiting for new ati-drivers...