New ATi HD Drivers for linux

xiaomhome · November 30th, 2007, 04:54 PM

I dont even use linux with my ATi rig, but its still important to announce this.
Today openSuSE news announced the release of the new ATi driver for R5xx and R6xx series cards. Its not ready yet, but still provide some functions that some may find usefull.

Info:
X.Org Wiki - radeonhd

Source:
openSUSE News » Blog Archive » ATI RadeonHD Driver: First Release!

Repositories where you can find it:
Index of /repositories/X11:/Drivers:/Video:/radeonhd

The Driver:
ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/indivi...-1.0.0.tar.bz2

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First released version.
Full modesetting driver, capable of driving multiple monitors.
Support for VGA, DVI, DMS-59, and laptop panels.
Support for monitor hotplug detection, DDC, and dynamic reconfiguration.
Full RandR 1.2 compatibility.
AtomBIOS support for initialization, data tables, etc.
Early RandR 1.3 property support (subject to change).
Hardware cursor support.
No 2D & 3D acceleration, no XVideo yet. No TV, Component, and HDMI yet.

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The radeonhd driver supports video cards based on the following ATI chips:

RV505: Radeon X1550, X1550 64bit
RV515: Radeon X1300, X1550, X1600; FireGL V3300, V3350
RV516: Radeon X1300, X1550, X1550 64-bit, X1600; FireMV 2250
R520: Radeon X1800; FireGL V5300, V7200, V7300, V7350
RV530: Radeon X1300 XT, X1600, X1600 Pro, X1650; FireGL V3400, V5200
RV535: Radeon X1300, X1650
RV550: Radeon X2300 HD
RV560: Radeon X1650
RV570: Radeon X1950, X1950 GT; FireGL V7400
R580: Radeon X1900, X1950; AMD Stream Processor
R600: Radeon HD 2900 GT/Pro/XT; FireGL V7600/V8600/V8650
RV610: Radeon HD 2350, HD 2400 Pro/XT, HD 2400 Pro AGP; FireGL V4000
RV630: Radeon HD 2600 LE/Pro/XT, HD 2600 Pro/XT AGP; Gemini RV630; FireGL V3600/V5600
M52: Mobility Radeon X1300
M54: Mobility Radeon X1400; M54-GL
M56: Mobility Radeon X1600; Mobility FireGL V5200
M58: Mobility Radeon X1800, X1800 XT; Mobility FireGL V7100, V7200
M62: Mobility Radeon X1350
M64: Mobility Radeon X1450, X2300
M66: Mobility Radeon X1700, X1700 XT; FireGL V5250
M68: Mobility Radeon X1900
M71: Mobility Radeon HD 2300
M72: Mobility Radeon HD 2400; Radeon E2400
M74: Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT
M76: Mobility Radeon HD 2600; (Gemini ATI) Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT
RS690: Radeon X1200, X1250, X1270

This section is taken straight from the radeonhd(4) man page, and should be kept in sync with radeonhd(4) and the src/rhd_id.c file in the source.

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Why is radeonhd so much slower than avivo?

There may be an old, obsolete line in your xorg.conf file from some fglrx setup a long time ago:

Option "mtrr" "no" # ancient, obsolete option: REMOVE IT!
If you have such a line, removing it can speed up radeonhd considerably.
General note: As a rule, one does not need any xorg.conf file with Xserver 1.4 and up, so it is always a good idea to make sure you really need all the statements in there.

IModIntel · November 30th, 2007, 08:00 PM

I personnaly dont use Linux, but i think that its about time that DAAMIT did something for Linux users.

xiaomhome · November 30th, 2007, 08:21 PM

I think you shouldnt thank DAAMIT so fast, read the lines "It is being developed by Novell for AMD, with the free documentation provided by AMD."

IModIntel · November 30th, 2007, 08:25 PM

Still, whoever designs it for them, it will be nice for those who need it.

Unixlord · December 1st, 2007, 01:23 AM

Well they deserve credit for releasing the hardware specifications and they are also working closely with Novell. They have also hired talented open source raedon driver devs who have already proven that they can develop a driver without the specs imagine what they could do with them.

Mac Daddy · December 1st, 2007, 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Unixlord

Well they deserve credit for releasing the hardware specifications and they are also working closely with Novell. They have also hired talented open source raedon driver devs who have already proven that they can develop a driver without the specs imagine what they could do with them.

I agree