Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 19:59:51 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Support for ATI RV730 PCI adaptor Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vmFkvcNNOqiCEHW7FgT5rqdAKFG19t6v3qcUgSgTM-8w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51A49044.1010208@freebsd.org> 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> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305271630450.39305@wonkity.com> <51A49044.1010208@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2013-05-28 00:32, Warren Block wrote: > > 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. > > The 4850 works, that's what I use. Only software rasteriser though. > I didn't know those RVxxx were so "messy". I thought they corresponded > pretty much 1-to-1 to board models. Oh well. > Regards! > -- > Niclas > Thanks, Nick. I've upgraded and just need to get into the office to confirm that it works. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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