Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (formerly ATI Technologies Inc.)
Status
Supported chipsets:
Mach64 (Rage Pro)
Rage 128 (Standard, Pro, Mobility)
Radeon up to X1950-series (i.e. Radeon SDR/DDR, Radeon 7000-9800, and Radeon X300-X1250, Radeon X1300 - X1950 are supported)
Important notes:
The Radeon naming scheme explained.
- For Radeon PCI support see the FAQ.
- Rage Fury Maxx is NOT supported by the DRI.
- The Radeon seems to have problems with certain early VIA chipsets. Your best bet is to try and see if it works.
- 3D support for the Radeon 9500-9800 (R300 series), X300-X850 (R400 series) and X1300 - X1950 (R500 series) is via the r300_dri driver. The stability has improved a lot in 2008, thanks to specifications released by AMD also for their (ATI's) older chipsets.
- R500 series support is available in Mesa 7.0.4 release or newer
- Radeons X2300 - X4870 do not yet have DRI 3D driver, see below for information about the specifications being released by AMD
Example graphics cards:
- Radeon X1650
- Radeon X700
- Radeon 8500
- Rage Fury
- Rage Magnum
- Xpert 2000
- Xpert 128
- Xpert 99
- All-in-Wonder 128
TVOut
Check the radeonTV page at wiki.x.org for information about how TV-Out (and TV capture) for ATI cards got to official X.org drivers from the GATOS project. TV-Out may now be enabled using Randr 1.2 ("xrandr" utility) for supported cards, by eg:
- xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600
- xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600
- xrandr --output S-video --set tv_standard ntsc
Specifications
History
ATI had a 'developer program'. Specifications of all ATI chips up to the Radeon 9200 were made available to DRI developers under NDA on an individual case basis. Please read carefully the NDA page before you consider applying.
Currently
For R500, R600 and R700 (Radeon X1000-X4000 series) AMD/ATI has now released specifications for basic mode-setting etc. and more is coming. AMD is also funding Novell to develop fully open driver called "radeonhd" using the specifications together with the community, see http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd;a=summary . Support for R500 has also been already added to the original xf86-video-ati driver, and radeonhd might be merging into it also as a whole.