Using a HD 4670 still possible?

[Christoph Brill]

Am 08.09.2014 03:41 schrieb "Michel Dänzer" <michel at daenzer.net>:
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> On 07.09.2014 01:01, Christoph Brill wrote:
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>> I'm currently trying to get a HD 4670 aka RV730 XT to work against X.org
>> 1.16, xf86-video-ati 7.4.0 on a Linux 3.16.1.
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>> Can anyone tell me: Should this card be able to handle an average Gnome
>> desktop?
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> Of course.
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>> The problem was: 3D rendering did not work at all.
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>> Starting gdm lead to hanging Xorg. Calling glxgears on a twm session
>> just rendered a black window, which stayed even if the process was
>> killed by CTRL+C. I managed to get glxgears do do its job by setting
>> "vblank_mode=0".
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>> I guessed my card does not like to play along with vsync at all. So I
>> went ahead to disable vsyncing (tearing is still better than no display
>> at all). Setting it globally in /etc/drirc seems to get glxgears running.
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>> Testing Xonotic on twm showed, that the card was now able to handle 3D.
>> But: gdm still was extremely sluggish and eventually froze. Starting
>> gnome-shell directly from startx gets me to the desktop, but any action
>> freezes the process.
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>> Is there still hope for this card or should I get rid of it?
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> It sounds like there's a problem with interrupt processing on your
system. Please provide the dmesg output. You might try disabling/enabling
MSI to see if that works around the problem.

Thank you so much for this hint! Booting using radeon.msi=0 finally brings
the system into a usable state. The dmesg of a default boot (i.e.
radeon.msi=-1) is available at http://pastebin.com/gS1xHYPc

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