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video card Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Turks [FirePro V4900]
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model: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Turks [FirePro V4900](model id: 1180)
possible other names of the device:
FirePro V4900
V4900
vendor:
Advanced-Micro-Devices-AMD-nee-ATI
VendorID:ProductID code of the device:
1002:6749
year of commercialization:
2011
interface:
PCI-E
tested on:
Trisquel 6.0 Toutatis
tested with the following kernel libre:
3.2.0-49
3.10.5
how does it work with free software?
works, but without 3D acceleration
free driver used:
radeon, vesa
Description:
Test environment:
  • Trisquel 6.0
  • Linux-libre kernel 3.2.0-49-generic, 3.10.5-gnu
  • xserver 1.11.4
  • mesa 9.1.6
  • radeon 7.1.0
  • vesa 2.3.2
  • No proprietary firmware used.
Test result:

Radeon driver would not work without the proprietary firmwares from normal Linux kernel. Ubuntu 13.04 worked out-of-the-box, while free distributions like Trisquel automatically fallback to VESA driver. As a result, everything 2D sort of worked but at a very slow pace. Screen resolution could not be correctly detected, limited to 4:3 ratio ones only. 3D acceleration did not work.

lspci -vmmnn

Slot:	05:00.0
Class:	VGA compatible controller [0300]
Vendor:	Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI [1002]
Device:	Turks [FirePro V4900] [6749]
SVendor:	Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI [1002]
SDevice:	Device [2b06]
PhySlot:	1

lspci -nnk

05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Turks [FirePro V4900] [1002:6749]
	Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Device [1002:2b06]
	Kernel modules: radeon

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