1AMDGPU(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual AMDGPU(4)
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6 amdgpu - AMD RADEON GPU video driver
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9 Section "Device"
10 Identifier "devname"
11 Driver "amdgpu"
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16 amdgpu is an Xorg driver for AMD RADEON-based video cards with the fol‐
17 lowing features:
18 · Support for 8-, 15-, 16-, 24- and 30-bit pixel depths;
20 · RandR support up to version 1.4;
21 · 3D acceleration;
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24 The amdgpu driver supports SI and newer families' video cards.
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27 Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details. This
28 section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.
29 The following driver Options are supported:
31 Option "SWcursor" "boolean"
33 Selects software cursor. The default is off.
34 Option "Accel" "boolean"
36 Enables or disables all hardware acceleration.
37 The default is on.
38 Option "ZaphodHeads" "string"
41 Specify the RandR output(s) to use with zaphod mode for a par‐
42 ticular driver instance. If you use this option you must use
43 this option for all instances of the driver.
44 For example: Option "ZaphodHeads" "LVDS,VGA-0" will assign
45 xrandr outputs LVDS and VGA-0 to this instance of the driver.
46 Option "DRI" "integer"
48 Define the maximum level of DRI to enable. Valid values are 2
49 for DRI2 or 3 for DRI3. The default is 3 for DRI3 if the Xorg
50 version is >= 1.18.3, otherwise 2 for DRI2.
51 Option "EnablePageFlip" "boolean"
53 Enable DRI2 page flipping. The default is on.
54 Option "TearFree" "boolean"
56 Set the default value of the per-output 'TearFree' property,
57 which controls tearing prevention using the hardware page flip‐
58 ping mechanism. TearFree is on for any CRTC associated with one
59 or more outputs with TearFree on. Two separate scanout buffers
60 need to be allocated for each CRTC with TearFree on. If this
61 option is set, the default value of the property is 'on' or
62 'off' accordingly. If this option isn't set, the default value
63 of the property is auto, which means that TearFree is on for
64 rotated outputs, outputs with RandR transforms applied and for
65 RandR 1.4 slave outputs, otherwise off.
66 Option "VariableRefresh" "boolean"
68 Enables support for enabling variable refresh on the Screen's
69 CRTCs when an suitable application is flipping via the Present
70 extension.
71 The default is off.
72 Option "AccelMethod" "string"
74 Setting this option to none disables use of the glamor accelera‐
75 tion architecture. In that case, all 2D rendering is done by the
76 CPU, but 3D and video hardware acceleration can still work. This
77 is mainly useful for OpenGL driver bring-up.
78 The default is to use glamor.
79 The following driver Option is supported for glamor :
82 Option "ShadowPrimary" "boolean"
84 This option enables a so-called "shadow primary" buffer for fast
85 CPU access to pixel data, and separate scanout buffers for each
86 display controller (CRTC). This may improve performance for
87 some 2D workloads, potentially at the expense of other (e.g. 3D,
88 video) workloads. Note in particular that enabling this option
89 currently disables page flipping. The default is off.
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93 Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)
94 1. Wiki page:
96 https://www.x.org/wiki/radeon
97 2. Overview about amdgpu development code:
99 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-amdgpu/
100 3. Mailing list:
102 https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/amd-gfx
103 4. IRC channel:
105 #radeon on irc.freenode.net
106 5. Query the bugtracker for amdgpu bugs:
108 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/query.cgi?product=xorg&compo‐
109 nent=Driver/AMDgpu
110 6. Submit bugs & patches:
112 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg&compo‐
113 nent=Driver/AMDgpu
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117 Authors include:
118 Michel Dänzer michel@daenzer.net
119 Alex Deucher alexdeucher@gmail.com
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