Support for ATI RV730 PCI adaptor

[Kevin Oberman]

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Warren Block <wblock at 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 at gmail.com