Hardware Support

-Is my ATI board supported? +Is my AMD/ATI board supported? =20

-Many ATI boards (but not all) are supported by xorg-x11, at lea= st for the 2D accelerated features. The 3D support is provided either by xorg-x11, = or by -ATI's c= losed -source drivers. ATI's closed source driver only supports R600 and = newer +AMD's closed +source drivers. AMD's closed source driver only supports R600 and = newer GPUs. Older GPUs will use the mature open source xorg-x11 driver.

=20 @@ -69,36 +69,47 @@ R300, R400 - Radeon 9500 - x850 + Radeon 9500 - X850 xorg R500 - Radeon X1300 and higher + Radeon X1300 - X1950 xorg R600 RadeonHD 2000 series - ATI DRI, xorg + AMD DRI, xorg RV670 RadeonHD 3000 series - ATI DRI, xorg + AMD DRI, xorg RV770 RadeonHD 4000 series - ATI DRI, xorg + AMD DRI, xorg R800 - RadeonHD 5000 series, "Evergreen" - ATI DRI, xorg + RadeonHD 5000 series + AMD DRI, xorg + + + R900 + RadeonHD 6000 series + AMD DRI, xorg =20 + +The Radeon Feature Mat= rix +at x.org lists the open source driver support level for each part of the +graphics card hardware. + +

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X11 support on the PPC or Alpha platforms is quite similar to x86 X11 su= pport. -However, ATI's closed source Catalyst drivers are not supported on the P= PC or -Alpha, so you will have to use the open source drivers. The Catalyst dri= vers are -only available for x86 and AMD64. The open source xorg-x11 drivers shoul= d work -well on all architectures. +However, AMD/ATI's closed source Catalyst drivers are not supported on t= he PPC +or Alpha, so you will have to use the open source drivers. The Catalyst = drivers +are only available for x86 and AMD64. The open source xorg-x11 drivers s= hould +work well on all architectures.

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-There are two ways of getting drivers for your ATI card: +There are two ways of getting drivers for your AMD/ATI card:

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The xorg-x11 ebuild provides the X11 implementation
- The ati-drivers ebuild provides the ATI closed source X drive= rs and - kernel modules +
+ The ati-drivers ebuild provides the AMD closed source X drive= rs + and kernel modules

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-If you want to use ATI's internal agpgart support instead of the = Linux +If you want to use AMD/ATI's internal agpgart support instead of = the Linux kernel one, the agpgart driver and the chip set specific driver (in your= kernel configuration) must be built as modules or not at all.

=20 Please read the Hardware Acceleratio= n -Guide for more information on installing drivers for your ATI grap= hics +Guide for more information on installing drivers for your AMD/ATI = graphics card. =20 @@ -221,7 +232,7 @@ =20

-Once X is installed, configured, and running, it can use the ATI OpenGL +Once X is installed, configured, and running, it can use the AMD/ATI Ope= nGL libraries:

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Please read the Hardware Acceleratio= n -Guide for more information on configuring your ATI graphics card. +Guide for more information on configuring your AMD/ATI graphics ca= rd.

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-More information on Gentoo Linux and the ATI Radeon binary drivers can b= e found -on the Wedge -Unofficial Gentoo ATI Radeon FAQ. +Unofficial Gentoo ATI Radeon FAQ, and on the Unofficial AMD Linux= Driver +Wiki.

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