On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:16:54AM +0000, O. Hartmann wrote: > Hello. > > Please respond also to my eMail address, since I'm not subscriber of > these lists! Thanks. > > Since I utilise a MSI Radeon R4670/512 RV730-based graphics card, I'im > incapable of using either
Support for this chip is still developing. Accellerated 3D is not available yet, and EXA might not be complete yet. > In all cases it doesn't matter wheter kernel module 'drm.ko' is loaded > or not. You also need radeon.ko and agp.ko for accelleration. As far as I can tell, agp.ko is used for memory management for the card/driver and is necessary even if your card is PCI-E. > Driver 'radeonhd' (xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.5_2) works, but without > 'options EXA' and without 'options DRI'. It is bumpy, but shows a > 1920x1200 pixel screen in full colours. DRI for R7xx isn't there yet. If you want to test a more recent radeonhd driver than the one in ports, you might have to use the drm and radeon modules from the Xorg git repository as well. > I'm a little bit confused, since the ATi-RV730LE chipset is supposed to > be supported. I run another box, an older nVidia CK804-based Athlon3500+ > box equipted with a MSI R4830/512 graphics card. That is an RV770, not a RV730. The Xorg developers are working on the drivers for the R7xx series. Full documentation wasn't available until a couple of months ago IIRC, so some patience is required. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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