Support for ATI RV730 PCI adaptor

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 27 May 2013, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Warren Block <wblock at 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.