Support for ATI RV730 PCI adaptor

[Niclas Zeising]

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 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.

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