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nightmorph 10/07/13 20:08:03 |
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Modified: ati-faq.xml |
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Log: |
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clean up the ATI faq, add R800 (evergreen) support info. inspired by bug 307481. |
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Revision Changes Path |
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1.48 xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml |
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file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml?rev=1.48&view=markup |
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plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml?rev=1.48&content-type=text/plain |
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diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml?r1=1.47&r2=1.48 |
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Index: ati-faq.xml |
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=================================================================== |
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml,v |
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retrieving revision 1.47 |
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retrieving revision 1.48 |
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diff -u -r1.47 -r1.48 |
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--- ati-faq.xml 30 Nov 2009 08:35:32 -0000 1.47 |
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+++ ati-faq.xml 13 Jul 2010 20:08:03 -0000 1.48 |
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?> |
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-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml,v 1.47 2009/11/30 08:35:32 nightmorph Exp $ --> |
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+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/ati-faq.xml,v 1.48 2010/07/13 20:08:03 nightmorph Exp $ --> |
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<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> |
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-<guide link="/doc/en/ati-faq.xml"> |
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+<guide> |
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<title>Gentoo Linux ATI FAQ</title> |
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<author title="Author"> |
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<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> |
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<license/> |
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-<version>1.8</version> |
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-<date>2009-11-30</date> |
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+<version>2</version> |
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+<date>2010-07-13</date> |
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<chapter> |
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<title>Hardware Support</title> |
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ATI's <uri |
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link="http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html">closed |
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source drivers</uri>. ATI's closed source driver only supports R600 and newer |
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-GPUs. Older GPUs will use the mature xorg-x11 driver. |
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+GPUs. Older GPUs will use the mature open source xorg-x11 driver. |
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</p> |
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<table> |
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</tr> |
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<tr> |
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<ti>R600</ti> |
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- <ti>Radeon HD 2000 series</ti> |
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+ <ti>RadeonHD 2000 series</ti> |
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<ti>ATI DRI, xorg</ti> |
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</tr> |
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<tr> |
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<ti>RV670</ti> |
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- <ti>Radeon HD 3000 series</ti> |
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+ <ti>RadeonHD 3000 series</ti> |
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<ti>ATI DRI, xorg</ti> |
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</tr> |
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<tr> |
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<ti>RV770</ti> |
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- <ti>Radeon HD 4000 series</ti> |
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+ <ti>RadeonHD 4000 series</ti> |
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+ <ti>ATI DRI, xorg</ti> |
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+</tr> |
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+<tr> |
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+ <ti>R800</ti> |
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+ <ti>RadeonHD 5000 series, "Evergreen"</ti> |
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<ti>ATI DRI, xorg</ti> |
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</tr> |
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</table> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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-The board's multimedia features are supported by <uri |
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-link="http://gatos.sf.net">the GATOS project</uri>. These drivers have been |
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-merged into the Xorg tree. You don't need to use anything special; |
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+You don't need to use anything special for the board's multimedia features; |
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<c>x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati</c> will work just fine. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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X11 support on the PPC or Alpha platforms is quite similar to x86 X11 support. |
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-However, ATI's closed source drivers are not supported on the PPC or Alpha, so |
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-you cannot use the 3D features of the R300 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). If |
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-you have such a board and want it supported by X11, contact <uri |
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-link="http://www.ati.com">ATI</uri> and ask them to release the specifications |
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-for your system's GPU. The closed source driver for the AMD64 was released, so |
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-AMD64 users can now enjoy the same features as x86 users. |
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+However, ATI's closed source Catalyst drivers are not supported on the PPC or |
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+Alpha, so you will have to use the open source drivers. The Catalyst drivers are |
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+only available for x86 and AMD64. The open source xorg-x11 drivers should work |
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+well on all architectures. |
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</p> |
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<impo> |
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-To enable agpgart support for certain AMD64 chip sets, you have to disable |
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+To enable agpgart support for certain old AMD64 chipsets, you have to disable |
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support for the K8 IOMMU. |
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</impo> |
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<p> |
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It should be, but you may have a configuration issue due to the OEM PCI id that |
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-such chips may have. In most cases, you may have to write the configuration |
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+such chips may have. In such cases, you may have to write the configuration |
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file yourself. |
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</p> |
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