Support for ATI RV730 PCI adaptor

[Warren Block]

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.