From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 29 02:59:53 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE00295; Wed, 29 May 2013 02:59:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f42.google.com (mail-oa0-f42.google.com [209.85.219.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE06E98; Wed, 29 May 2013 02:59:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f42.google.com with SMTP id i10so11031557oag.15 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 19:59:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=rFoS2qZ15YL8UUSE6t1bKYCqd/QX795Mhy99MERWQeY=; b=G+ieGvw4b/ptXsTIIPL0kapGB3K91ZBu3IePbYPoJpXgQl51CFe2q2bM7a0pI5MQho se/wNusfgB/XA8WKztj1AqaboKPxmyb7MN3/QfReBP8sYnF6AUsPJgiA3H5Du8nCVfbl 6frhA/6UaxTEi7pdmUOlxbojCIAAvwDbFTSKTp44/4kjm6ykQaIcLZ+oom4UUIt4LuwR ujW3RcSpXhMQc+OQ/u0QC/kywuIjaWdgcjTmVyn8ca3JgrohiEfDUZ41Dk4Z+92Zj5at dMIzMze/ZxEd3NxkgC0vYGH5pZHpSqQPxQ6Yx87v2ADgjlQgbVRMIVWty931m52tnXSK TJ/Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.141.164 with SMTP id rp4mr449187oeb.38.1369796392144; Tue, 28 May 2013 19:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.76.182.76 with HTTP; Tue, 28 May 2013 19:59:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51A49044.1010208@freebsd.org> References: <51A3CFDB.7090003@freebsd.org> <51A49044.1010208@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 19:59:51 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dVDyoyjz2AhHggW0t5utRIdfoaw Message-ID: Subject: Re: Support for ATI RV730 PCI adaptor From: Kevin Oberman To: Niclas Zeising Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 02:59:53 -0000 On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Niclas Zeising 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 > 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