Radeon KMS on HD4650 (RV730)

[Matt]

Matt wrote:
> On , Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
>> On 11/06/2013 22:00, Matt wrote:
>>> I only see problems the second time I launch Xorg. KDE is fine after
>>> boot, but if I logout (which restarts X) I start seeing problems with
>>> KDE4, xfce4-displays and choppy/stutter windows...
>> 
>> I committed two fixes to HEAD and stable/10. I wasn't targetting the
>> modeline loop problem, but I can't reproduce it anymore. If you have
>> time, can you checkout stable/10, rebuild a GENERIC kernel and retest,
>> please?
> 
> I have installed r258114 and I cannot reproduce the issue anymore, although 
> I
> have not tested extensively.
> 
> I am still not getting GPU accel with xf86-video-ati-7.2.0:
> [   314.566] (II) RADEON(0): GPU accel disabled or not working, using 
> shadowfb for KMS
> 
> This occurs with my old xorg.conf and no xorg.conf (X autoconfigure)
> 
> I will try 7.1.0 next, but something is not working in 7.2.0.
> 
> Matt

7.1.0 *does* work for RV730 PRO. I modified the makefile for xf86-video-ati 
to use 7.1.0, and added the appropriate distinfo (hash/size) to allow it.

[    30.192] (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled

Is it known why there is a regression?

Matt