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radeon

Driver for ATI/AMD Radeon based video chips, everything from Radeon 7000 (R100) to Radeon HD 7000 (Southern Islands) series. Part of xf86-video-ati, ie. also known as the ”ati” driver. License: MIT

Latest News

Latest changes in the development tree can be seen at: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/

Status

See RadeonFeature and RadeonProgram for driver feature and supported program lists. For more 3D information see Radeon 3D acceleration Portal.

What about other drivers?

For an alternative R500/R600/R700 driver see radeonhd. Radeon has some features not available in radeonhd and vice versa, but generally they are starting to be quite close while radeon supports all the cards and radeonhd only r5xx-r7xx.

The differences between radeon and radeonhd with r5xx-r7xx series:

The reasons for two different drivers are historical, and starting to be a thing of the past as all the new DRM (direct rendering manager), 3D and KMS (kernel mode setting) work is done in a single place. radeonhd driver is abandoned and unsupported. Please use radeon.

For R6xx and above there is also an ATIProprietaryDriver available, which is worse in many aspects but has better 3D performance and features. The proprietary driver included support for R3xx-R5xx GPUs until the March 2009 release.

Documentation and Support

Build instruction can be found from radeonBuildHowTo

Please check the included manual page (old version here) for configuration options. To see or submit real-world reports on the 3D acceleration performance of this driver, see the free3d.org wiki

There is an IRC channel #radeon on irc.freenode.net for radeon users and developers.

Submit a bug report. View open bugs.

Development mailing lists are:

http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati - for the ati/radeon driver

http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg - for general Xorg development

http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev - Mesa / 3D support development.

TV Out Support

Please check radeonTV for information about TV out support.

Dual-head Support

See the XRandR 1.2 documentation for how to set up multiple monitors.

Known Issues

History

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