Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 15:50:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> Cc: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Support for ATI RV730 PCI adaptor Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305271546440.38835@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <51A3CFDB.7090003@freebsd.org> References: <CAN6yY1sdDzLrF-ci9Tg0%2BX7ZzWBFuwufHdb4HocHLmwHwi3xsA@mail.gmail.com> <51A3CFDB.7090003@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 27 May 2013, Niclas Zeising wrote: > On 2013-05-27 23:06, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> I'm looking for information on support of the RV730 (PCI) card with the >> recent X.org mega-update. I don't think this card even uses KMS, but I >> might be wrong. Can anyone provide information one whether it will work >> with the Radeon driver either in default configuration or WITH_NEW_XORG? I >> just want to make sure that it can work after upgrading and, maybe let me >> build it correctly the first time. > > Hi! > I have a hard time keeping track of all the different RVxxx, what is the > product name of the graphics card? > Up to 4000HD series should work with the new xorg (WITH_NEW_XORG), but > not all work with 3D acceleration, they use the software rasteriser > instead. I have successfully run the xorg update on my desktop with a > HD4850 untill today, when the cooling fan on the graphics card stopped > cooling. The driver i use is the regula xf86-video-ati, not the > radeonhd driver. > The old configuration should still work, since neither mesa (libGL etc), > libdri, libdrm nor xorg-server was particularly updated, only client > libraries and drivers were. > Remember to recompile all drivers and everything at the same time, to > have drivers and server match. > Regards! RV730 should be one of the 4000-series. The radeon(4) man page has a list. My HD4650 shows up as RV730. glxinfo | grep renderer shows "OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer". It is usable except for things like ioquake.
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