Radeon
Radeon
NAME
radeon - ATI/AMD RADEON video driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "radeon"
...
EndSection
DESCRIPTION
radeon is an Xorg driver for ATI/AMD RADEON-based video cards with the following features:
• Full support for 8-, 15-, 16- and 24-bit pixel depths, and for 30-bit depth on Linux 3.16 and later;
• RandR 1.2 and RandR 1.3 support;
• Full EXA 2D acceleration;
• Textured XVideo acceleration including anti-tearing support (Bicubic filtering only available on
R/RV3xx, R/RV/RS4xx, R/RV5xx, and RS6xx/RS740);
• 3D acceleration;
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The radeon driver supports PCI, AGP, and PCIe video cards based on the following ATI/AMD chips (note:
list is non-exhaustive):
R100 Radeon 7200
RV100 Radeon 7000(VE), M6, RN50/ES1000
RS100 Radeon IGP320(M)
RV200 Radeon 7500, M7, FireGL 7800
RS200 Radeon IGP330(M)/IGP340(M)
RS250 Radeon Mobility 7000 IGP
R200 Radeon 8500, 9100, FireGL 8800/8700
RV250 Radeon 9000PRO/9000, M9
RV280 Radeon 9200PRO/9200/9200SE/9250, M9+
RS300 Radeon 9100 IGP
RS350 Radeon 9200 IGP
RS400/RS480
Radeon XPRESS 200(M)/1100 IGP
R300 Radeon 9700PRO/9700/9500PRO/9500/9600TX, FireGL X1/Z1
R350 Radeon 9800PRO/9800SE/9800, FireGL X2
R360 Radeon 9800XT
RV350 Radeon 9600PRO/9600SE/9600/9550, M10/M11, FireGL T2
RV360 Radeon 9600XT
RV370 Radeon X300, M22
RV380 Radeon X600, M24
RV410 Radeon X700, M26 PCIe
R420 Radeon X800 AGP
R423/R430 Radeon X800, M28 PCIe
R480/R481 Radeon X850 PCIe/AGP
RV505/RV515/RV516/RV550
Radeon X1300/X1400/X1500/X1550/X2300
R520 Radeon X1800
RV530/RV560
Radeon X1600/X1650/X1700
RV570/R580 Radeon X1900/X1950
RS600/RS690/RS740
Radeon X1200/X1250/X2100
old or if the current display configuration does not support it. On R600+ this enables 1D tiling
mode.
The default value is on for R/RV3XX, R/RV4XX, R/RV5XX, RS6XX, RS740, R/RV6XX,
R/RV7XX, RS780, RS880, EVERGREEN, CAYMAN, ARUBA, Southern Islands, and Sea Is-
lands and off for R/RV/RS1XX, R/RV/RS2XX, RS3XX, and RS690/RS780/RS880 when fast fb
feature is enabled.
Option "ColorTiling2D" "boolean"
The framebuffer can be addressed either in linear, 1D, or 2D tiled modes. 2D tiled mode can pro-
vide significant performance benefits over 1D tiling with 3D applications. Tiling will be disabled
if the drm module is too old or if the current display configuration does not support it. KMS Color-
Tiling2D is only supported on R600 and newer chips and requires Mesa 9.0 or newer for R6xx-
ARUBA, Mesa 9.2 or newer for Southern Islands, and Mesa 10.1 or newer for Sea Islands.
The default value is on for R/RV6XX, R/RV7XX, RS780, RS880, EVERGREEN, CAYMAN,
ARUBA, Southern Islands, and Sea Islands.
Option "DRI" "integer"
Define the maximum level of DRI to enable. Valid values are 2 for DRI2 or 3 for DRI3. The de-
fault is 3 for DRI3 if the Xorg version is >= 1.18.3 and glamor is enabled, otherwise 2 for DRI2.
Note: DRI3 may not work correctly in all cases with EXA, enable at your own risk.
Option "EnablePageFlip" "boolean"
Enable DRI2 page flipping. The default is on. Pageflipping is supported on all radeon hardware.
Option "TearFree" "boolean"
Set the default value of the per-output ’TearFree’ property, which controls tearing prevention using
the hardware page flipping mechanism. TearFree is on for any CRTC associated with one or more
outputs with TearFree on. Two separate scanout buffers need to be allocated for each CRTC with
TearFree on. If this option is set, the default value of the property is ’on’ or ’off’ accordingly. If
this option isn’t set, the default value of the property is auto, which means that TearFree is on for
rotated outputs, outputs with RandR transforms applied and for RandR 1.4 secondary outputs, oth-
erwise off.
Option "AccelMethod" "string"
Chooses between available acceleration architectures. Valid values are EXA (for pre-TAHITI
GPUs) and glamor (for R300 or higher). The default is glamor with R600 or newer (with Xorg
>= 1.18.3, otherwise with TAHITI or newer), otherwise EXA.
XV_VSYNC
XV_VSYNC is used to control whether textured adapter synchronizes the screen update to the
monitor vertical refresh to eliminate tearing. It has two values: ’off’(0) and ’on’(1). The default is
’on’(1).
XV_CRTC
XV_CRTC is used to control which display controller (crtc) the textured adapter synchronizes the
screen update with when XV_VSYNC is enabled. The default, ’auto’(-1), will sync to the display
controller that more of the video is on; when this is ambiguous, the display controller associated
with the RandR primary output is preferred. This attribute is useful for things like clone mode
where the user can best decide which display should be synced. The default is ’auto’(-1).
XV_BICUBIC
XV_BICUBIC is used to control whether textured adapter should apply a bicubic filter to smooth
the output. It has three values: ’off’(0), ’on’(1) and ’auto’(2). ’off’ means never apply the filter,
’on’ means always apply the filter and ’auto’ means apply the filter only if the X and Y sizes are
scaled to more than double to avoid blurred output. Bicubic filtering is not currently compatible
with other Xv attributes like hue, contrast, and brightness, and must be disabled to use those at-
tributes. The default is ’off’(0).
SEE ALSO
Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)
1. Wiki page:
https://www.x.org/wiki/radeon
2. Overview about radeon development code:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/
3. Mailing list:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/amd-gfx
4. IRC channel:
#radeon on irc.freenode.net
5. Query the bugtracker for radeon bugs:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/query.cgi?product=xorg&component=Driver/Radeon
6. Submit bugs & patches:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg&component=Driver/Radeon
AUTHORS
Authors include:
Rickard E. (Rik) Faith faith@precisioninsight.com
Kevin E. Martin kem@freedesktop.org
Alan Hourihane alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk
Marc Aurele La France tsi@xfree86.org
Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh@kernel.crashing.org
Michel Dänzer michel@daenzer.net
Alex Deucher alexdeucher@gmail.com
Bogdan D. bogdand@users.sourceforge.net
Eric Anholt eric@anholt.net