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RADEON(4) RADEON(4)
NAME
radeon - ATI RADEON video driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "radeon"
...
EndSection
DESCRIPTION
radeon is an Xorg driver for ATI RADEON based video cards with the following features:
o Full support for 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit pixel depths;
o RandR 1.2 and RandR 1.3 support;
o TV-out support (only on R/RV/RS1xx, R/RV/RS2xx, R/RV/RS3xx. Experimental support on R/RV5xx, R/RV6xx, and R/RV7xx
through the ATOMTvOut option);
o Full EXA 2D acceleration;
o Full XAA 2D acceleration (only on R/RV/RS1xx, R/RV/RS2xx, R/RV/RS3xx, R/RV/RS4xx, R/RV5xx, RS6xx. XAA Render accelera-
tion supported only on R/RV100, R/RV/RS2xx and RS3xx);
o Textured XVideo acceleration including anti-tearing support (Bicubic filtering only available on R/RV3xx, R/RV/RS4xx,
R/RV5xx, and RS6xx/RS740);
o Overlay XVideo acceleration (only on R/RV/RS1xx, R/RV/RS2xx, R/RV/RS3xx, R/RV/RS4xx);
o 3D acceleration;
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The radeon driver supports PCI, AGP, and PCIE video cards based on the following ATI chips:
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/X2300
R520 Radeon X1800
RV530/RV560 Radeon X1600/X1650/X1700
RV570/R580 Radeon X1900/X1950
RS600/RS690/RS740
Radeon X1200/X1250/X2100
R600 Radeon HD 2900
RV610/RV630 Radeon HD 2400/2600
RV620/RV635 Radeon HD 3450/3470
RV670 Radeon HD 3850/3870
RS780 Radeon HD 3100/3200/3300
RV710 Radeon HD 4350/4550
RV730 Radeon HD 4650/4670
RV770 Radeon HD 4850/4870
CONFIGURATION DETAILS
Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details. This section only covers configuration details specific
to this driver.
The driver auto-detects all device information necessary to initialize the card. However, if you have problems with
auto-detection, you can specify:
VideoRam - in kilobytes
MemBase - physical address of the linear framebuffer
IOBase - physical address of the MMIO registers
ChipID - PCI DEVICE ID
In addition, the following driver Options are supported:
Option "SWcursor" "boolean"
Selects software cursor. The default is off.
Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
Enables or disables all hardware acceleration.
The default is to enable hardware acceleration.
Option "Dac6Bit" "boolean"
Enables or disables the use of 6 bits per color component when in 8 bpp mode (emulates VGA mode). By default, all
8 bits per color component are used.
The default is off.
Option "VideoKey" "integer"
This overrides the default pixel value for the YUV video overlay key.
The default value is 0x1E.
Option "ScalerWidth" "integer"
This sets the overlay scaler buffer width. Accepted values range from 1024 to 2048, divisible by 64, values other
than 1536 and 1920 may not make sense though. Should be set automatically, but noone has a clue what the limit is
for which chip. If you think quality is not optimal when playing back HD video (with horizontal resolution larger
than this setting), increase this value, if you get an empty area at the right (usually pink), decrease it. Note
this only affects the "true" overlay via xv, it won't affect things like textured video.
The default value is either 1536 (for most chips) or 1920.
Option "AGPMode" "integer"
Set AGP data transfer rate. (used only when DRI is enabled)
1 -- 1x (before AGP v3 only)
2 -- 2x (before AGP v3 only)
4 -- 4x
8 -- 8x (AGP v3 only)
others -- invalid
The default is to leave it unchanged.
Option "AGPFastWrite" "boolean"
Enable AGP fast writes. Enabling this is frequently the cause of instability. Used only when the DRI is enabled.
If you enable this option you will get *NO* support from developers.
The default is off.
Option "BusType" "string"
Used to replace previous ForcePCIMode option. Should only be used when driver's bus detection is incorrect or you
want to force a AGP card to PCI mode. Should NEVER force a PCI card to AGP bus.
PCI -- PCI bus
AGP -- AGP bus
PCIE -- PCI Express bus
(used only when DRI is enabled)
The default is auto detect.
Option "DisplayPriority" "string"
Used to prevent flickering or tearing problem caused by display buffer underflow.
AUTO -- Driver calculated (default).
BIOS -- Remain unchanged from BIOS setting.
Use this if the calculation is not correct
for your card.
HIGH -- Force to the highest priority.
Use this if you have problem with above options.
This may affect performance slightly.
The default value is AUTO.
Option "ColorTiling" "boolean"
Frame buffer can be addressed either in linear or tiled mode. Tiled mode can provide significant performance bene-
fits with 3D applications, for 2D it shouldn't matter much. Tiling will be disabled if the virtual x resolution
exceeds 2048 (3968 for R300 and above), or if DRI is enabled the drm module is too old.
If this option is enabled, a new dri driver is required for direct rendering too.
Color tiling will be automatically disabled in interlaced or doublescan screen modes.
The default value is on.
Option "IgnoreEDID" "boolean"
Do not use EDID data for mode validation, but DDC is still used for monitor detection. This is different from
NoDDC option.
The default value is off.
Option "CustomEDID" "string"
Forces the X driver to use the EDID data specified in a file rather than the display's EDID. Also overrides DDC
monitor detection.
You may specify a semicolon separated list of output name and filename pairs with an optional flag, "digital" or
"analog", to override the digital bit in the edid which is used by the driver to determine whether to use the ana-
log or digital encoder associated with a DVI-I port. The output name is the randr output name, e.g., "VGA-0" or
"DVI-0"; consult the Xorg log for the supported output names of any given system.
The file must contain a raw 128-byte EDID block, as captured by get-edid.
For example: Option "CustomEDID" "VGA-0:/tmp/edid1.bin; DVI-0:/tmp/edid2.bin:digital" will assign the EDID from
the file /tmp/edid1.bin to the output device VGA-0, and the EDID from the file /tmp/edid2.bin to the output device
DVI-0 and force the DVI port to use the digital encoder.
Note that a output name must always be specified, even if only one EDID is specified.
Caution: Specifying an EDID that doesn't exactly match your display may damage your hardware, as it allows the
driver to specify timings beyond the capabilities of your display. Use with care.
Option "PanelSize" "string"
Should only be used when driver cannot detect the correct panel size. Apply to both desktop (TMDS) and laptop
(LVDS) digital panels. When a valid panel size is specified, the timings collected from DDC and BIOS will not be
used. If you have a panel with timings different from that of a standard VESA mode, you have to provide this
information through the Modeline.
For example, Option "PanelSize" "1400x1050"
The default value is none.
Option "EnablePageFlip" "boolean"
Enable page flipping for 3D acceleration. This will increase performance but not work correctly in some rare
cases, hence the default is off. It is currently only supported on R/RV/RS4xx and older hardware.
Option "ForceMinDotClock" "frequency"
Override minimum dot clock. Some Radeon BIOSes report a minimum dot clock unsuitable (too high) for use with tele-
vision sets even when they actually can produce lower dot clocks. If this is the case you can override the value
here. Note that using this option may damage your hardware. You have been warned. The frequency parameter may be
specified as a float value with standard suffixes like "k", "kHz", "M", "MHz".
Option "RenderAccel" "boolean"
Enables or disables hardware Render acceleration. It is supported on all Radeon cards when using EXA acceleration
and on Radeon R/RV/RS1xx, R/RV/RS2xx and RS3xx when usig XAA. The default is to enable Render acceleration.
Option "AccelMethod" "string"
Chooses between available acceleration architectures. Valid options are XAA and EXA. XAA is the traditional
acceleration architecture and support for it is very stable. EXA is a newer acceleration architecture with better
performance for the Render and Composite extensions. The default is EXA.
Option "AccelDFS" "boolean"
Use or don't use accelerated EXA DownloadFromScreen hook when possible (only when Direct Rendering is enabled,
e.g.). Default: off with AGP due to issues with GPU->host transfers with some AGP bridges, on otherwise.
Option "FBTexPercent" "integer"
Amount of video RAM to reserve for OpenGL textures, in percent. With EXA, the remainder of video RAM is reserved
for EXA offscreen management. Specifying 0 results in all offscreen video RAM being reserved for EXA and only GART
memory being available for OpenGL textures. This may improve EXA performance, but beware that it may cause prob-
lems with OpenGL drivers from Mesa versions older than 6.4. With XAA, specifying lower percentage than what gets
reserved without this option has no effect, but the driver tries to increase the video RAM reserved for textures
to the amount specified roughly. Default: 50.
Option "DepthBits" "integer"
Precision in bits per pixel of the shared depth buffer used for 3D acceleration. Valid values are 16 and 24. When
this is 24, there will also be a hardware accelerated stencil buffer, but the combined depth/stencil buffer will
take up twice as much video RAM as when it's 16. Default: The same as the screen depth.
Option "DMAForXv" "boolean"
Try or don't try to use DMA for Xv image transfers. This will reduce CPU usage when playing big videos like DVDs,
but may cause instabilities. Default: on.
Option "SubPixelOrder" "string"
Force subpixel order to specified order. Subpixel order is used for subpixel decimation on flat panels.
NONE -- No subpixel (CRT like displays)
RGB -- in horizontal RGB order (most flat panels)
BGR -- in horizontal BGR order (some flat panels)
This option is intended to be used in following cases:
1. The default subpixel order is incorrect for your panel.
2. Enable subpixel decimation on analog panels.
3. Adjust to one display type in dual-head clone mode setup.
4. Get better performance with Render acceleration on digital panels (use NONE setting).
The default is NONE for CRT, RGB for digital panels
Option "ClockGating" "boolean"
Enable dynamic clock gating. This can help reduce heat and increase battery life by reducing power usage. Some
users report reduced 3D performance with this enabled. The default is off.
Option "ForceLowPowerMode" "boolean"
Enable a static low power mode. This can help reduce heat and increase battery life by reducing power usage at
the expense of performance. The default is off.
Option "DynamicPM" "boolean"
Enable dynamic power mode switching. This can help reduce heat and increase battery life by reducing power usage
when the system is idle (DPMS active). The default is off.
Option "VGAAccess" "boolean"
Tell the driver if it can do legacy VGA IOs to the card. This is necessary for properly resuming consoles when in
VGA text mode, but shouldn't be if the console is using radeonfb or some other graphic mode driver. Some platforms
like PowerPC have issues with those, and they aren't necessary unless you have a real text mode in console. The
default is off on PowerPC and SPARC and on on other architectures.
Option "ReverseDDC" "boolean"
When BIOS connector informations aren't available, use this option to reverse the mapping of the 2 main DDC ports.
Use this if the X server obviously detects the wrong display for each connector. This is typically needed on the
Radeon 9600 cards bundled with Apple G5s. The default is off.
Option "LVDSProbePLL" "boolean"
When BIOS panel informations aren't available (like on PowerBooks), it may still be necessary to use the firmware
provided PLL values for the panel or flickering will happen. This option will force probing of the current value
programmed in the chip when X is launched in that case. This is only useful for LVDS panels (laptop internal pan-
els). The default is on.
Option "TVDACLoadDetect" "boolean"
Enable load detection on the TV DAC. The TV DAC is used to drive both TV-out and analog monitors. Load detection
is often unreliable in the TV DAC so it is disabled by default. The default is off.
Option "DefaultTMDSPLL" "boolean"
Use the default driver provided TMDS PLL values rather than the ones provided by the bios. This option has no
effect on Mac cards. Enable this option if you are having problems with a DVI monitor using the internal TMDS
controller. The default is off.
Option "DefaultTVDACAdj" "boolean"
Use the default driver provided TVDAC Adj values rather than the ones provided by the bios. This option has no
effect on Mac cards. Enable this option if you are having problems with a washed out display on the secondary
DAC. The default is off.
Option "DRI" "boolean"
Enable DRI support. This option allows you to enable to disable the DRI. The default is off for RN50/ES1000 and
on for others.
Option "DefaultConnectorTable" "boolean"
Enable this option to skip the BIOS connector table parsing and use the driver defaults for each chip. The
default is off
Option "MacModel" "string"
Used to specify Mac models for connector tables and quirks. If you have a powerbook or mini with DVI that does
not work properly, try the alternate options as Apple does not seem to provide a good way of knowing whether they
use internal or external TMDS for DVI. Only valid on PowerPC. On Linux, the driver will attempt to detect the
MacModel automatically.
ibook -- ibooks
powerbook-external -- Powerbooks with external DVI
powerbook-internal -- Powerbooks with integrated DVI
powerbook-vga -- Powerbooks with VGA rather than DVI
mini-external -- Mac Mini with external DVI
mini-internal -- Mac Mini with integrated DVI
imac-g5-isight -- iMac G5 iSight
emac -- eMac G4
The default value is undefined.
Option "TVStandard" "string"
Used to specify the default TV standard if you want to use something other than the bios default. Valid options
are:
ntsc
pal
pal-m
pal-60
ntsc-j
scart-pal
The default value is undefined.
Option "ForceTVOut" "boolean"
Enable this option to force TV-out to always be detected as attached. The default is off
Option "IgnoreLidStatus" "boolean"
Enable this option to ignore lid status on laptops and always detect LVDS as attached. The default is on.
Option "Int10" "boolean"
This option allows you to disable int10 initialization. Set this to False if you are experiencing a hang when
initializing a secondary card. The default is on.
Option "EXAVSync" "boolean"
This option attempts to avoid tearing by stalling the engine until the display controller has passed the destina-
tion region. It reduces tearing at the cost of performance and has been know to cause instability on some chips.
The default is off.
Option "ATOMTvOut" "boolean"
This option enables experimental TV-out support for R/RV5xx, R/RV6xx, and R/RV7xx atombios chips. TV-out is exper-
imental and may not function on these chips as well as hoped for. The default is off.
Option "R4xxATOM" "boolean"
This option enables modesetting on R/RV4xx chips using atombios. The default is off.
Option "EXAPixmaps" "boolean"
(KMS Only) Under kernel modesetting to avoid thrashing pixmaps in/out of VRAM on low memory cards, we use a
heuristic based on VRAM amount, to determine whether to allow EXA to use VRAM for non-essential pixmaps. This
option allows us to override the heurisitc. The default is on with > 32MB VRAM, off with < 32MB.
Option "ZaphodHeads" "string"
Specify the randr output(s) to use with zaphod mode for a particular driver instance. If you use this option you
most use this option for all instances of the driver.
For example: Option "ZaphodHeads" "LVDS,VGA-0" will assign xrandr outputs LVDS and VGA-0 to this instance of the
driver.
TEXTURED VIDEO ATTRIBUTES
The driver supports the following X11 Xv attributes for Textured Video. You can use the "xvattr" tool to query/set those
attributes at runtime.
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. 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 bright-
ness, and must be disabled to use those attributes. The default is 'off'(0).
SEE ALSO
Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)
1. Wiki page:
http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon
2. Overview about radeon development code:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/
3. Mailing list:
http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
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 faithATprecisioninsight.com
Kevin E. Martin kemATfreedesktop.org
Alan Hourihane alanhATfairlite.uk
Marc Aurele La France tsiATxfree86.org
Benjamin Herrenschmidt benhATkernel.org
Michel Danzer michelATtungstengraphics.com
Alex Deucher alexdeucherATgmail.com
Bogdan D. bogdandATusers.net
Eric Anholt ericATanholt.net
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