Support for ATI RV730 PCI adaptor

[Kevin Oberman]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Niclas Zeising <zeising at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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
>

Thanks, Nick. I've upgraded and just need to get into the office to confirm
that it works.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com