Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 15:25:09 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Support for ATI RV730 PCI adaptor Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vZkdAW=UZOPQiauo_=gGE%2BAw1VA3HcLjyT8iKS1JcQKA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305271546440.38835@wonkity.com> References: <CAN6yY1sdDzLrF-ci9Tg0%2BX7ZzWBFuwufHdb4HocHLmwHwi3xsA@mail.gmail.com> <51A3CFDB.7090003@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305271546440.38835@wonkity.com>
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On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > 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. > Guess I should have listed models as well as chip-set. Mine is the 4670HD Unfortunately, those GPUs did not align with board models. The RV730 was used in: 4330/4350/4550/4650/4670/5145/5165/530v/545v/560v/565v So the 4850 used a slightly newer GPU that is not programming identical to the 730 and the 40xx-42xx used an older GPU from the RS series. But if NEW XORG works on the 4850HD, which is at least an RV7xx, I strongly suspect that it will work with my card I have. Guess I'll take a shot at it and see what happens. I'll be installing it from home, so I won't know if it actually works until I get into the office. (It's a holiday in the US.) Thanks so much for the quick responses! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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