Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 13:08:52 +0200 From: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Support for ATI RV730 PCI adaptor Message-ID: <51A49044.1010208@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305271630450.39305@wonkity.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> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305271630450.39305@wonkity.com>
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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
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