Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 16:32:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.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: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305271630450.39305@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1vZkdAW=UZOPQiauo_=gGE%2BAw1VA3HcLjyT8iKS1JcQKA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN6yY1sdDzLrF-ci9Tg0%2BX7ZzWBFuwufHdb4HocHLmwHwi3xsA@mail.gmail.com> <51A3CFDB.7090003@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305271546440.38835@wonkity.com> <CAN6yY1vZkdAW=UZOPQiauo_=gGE%2BAw1VA3HcLjyT8iKS1JcQKA@mail.gmail.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --3512871622-1488208081-1369693930=:39305 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Mon, 27 May 2013, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > > 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.) I have an HD4850 I can test, but my impression is that hardware acceleration, either 2D or 3D, will have to wait for KMS support. --3512871622-1488208081-1369693930=:39305--
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