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NAME

       amdgpu - AMD RADEON GPU video driver

SYNOPSIS

       Section "Device"
         Identifier "devname"
         Driver "amdgpu"
         ...
       EndSection

DESCRIPTION

       amdgpu is an Xorg driver for AMD RADEON-based video cards with the following features:

       • Support for 8-, 15-, 16-, 24- and 30-bit pixel depths;
       • RandR support up to version 1.4;
       • 3D acceleration;

SUPPORTED HARDWARE

       The amdgpu driver supports SI and newer families' video cards.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS

       Please  refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details.  This section only covers
       configuration details specific to this driver.

       The following driver Options are supported:

       Option "SWcursor" "boolean"
              Selects software cursor.  The default is off.

       Option "Accel" "boolean"
              Enables or disables all hardware acceleration.
              The default is on.

       Option "ZaphodHeads" "string"
              Specify the RandR output(s) to  use  with  zaphod  mode  for  a  particular  driver
              instance.  If you use this option you must use this option for all instances of the
              driver.
              For example: Option "ZaphodHeads" "LVDS,VGA-0" will assign xrandr outputs LVDS  and
              VGA-0 to this instance of the driver.

       Option "DRI" "integer"
              Define  the  maximum  level  of DRI to enable. Valid values are 2 for DRI2 or 3 for
              DRI3.  The default is 3 for DRI3 if the Xorg version is >= 1.18.3, otherwise 2  for
              DRI2.

       Option "EnablePageFlip" "boolean"
              Enable DRI2 page flipping.  The default is on.

       Option "TearFree" "boolean"
              Set the default value of the per-output 'TearFree' property, which controls tearing
              prevention using the hardware page flipping mechanism. TearFree is on for any  CRTC
              associated  with one or more outputs with TearFree on. Two separate scanout buffers
              need to be allocated for each CRTC with TearFree on. If this  option  is  set,  the
              default  value  of  the property is 'on' or 'off' accordingly. If this option isn't
              set, the default value of the property is auto, which means that TearFree is on for
              rotated  outputs, outputs with RandR transforms applied and for RandR 1.4 secondary
              outputs, otherwise off.

       Option "VariableRefresh" "boolean"
              Enables support for enabling  variable  refresh  on  the  Screen's  CRTCs  when  an
              suitable application is flipping via the Present extension.
              The default is off.

       Option "AsyncFlipSecondaries" "boolean"
              Use  async  flips  for secondary video outputs on multi-display setups. If a screen
              has multiple displays attached and DRI3 page flipping is used, then only one of the
              displays will have its page flip synchronized to vblank for tear-free presentation.
              This is the display that is used for presentation timing and timestamping,  usually
              the  one  covering  the  biggest  pixel  area  of  the  screen.  All other displays
              ("Secondaries") will not synchronize their flips. This may cause  some  tearing  on
              these  displays,  but  it  prevents  a permanent or periodic slowdown or irritating
              judder of animations if not all video outputs are running  synchronized  with  each
              other  and  with  the  same  refresh  rate. There is no perfect solution apart from
              perfectly synchronized outputs, but this option may give preferrable results if the
              displays in a multi-display setup mirror or clone each other.  The default is off.

       Option "AccelMethod" "string"
              Setting  this  option to none disables use of the glamor acceleration architecture.
              In that case, all 2D rendering is done by  the  CPU,  but  3D  and  video  hardware
              acceleration can still work. This is mainly useful for OpenGL driver bring-up.
              The default is to use glamor.

       The following driver Option is supported for glamor :

       Option "ShadowPrimary" "boolean"
              This  option  enables  a  so-called  "shadow primary" buffer for fast CPU access to
              pixel data, and separate scanout buffers for each display controller (CRTC).   This
              may  improve performance for some 2D workloads, potentially at the expense of other
              (e.g. 3D, video) workloads.  Note in particular that enabling this option currently
              disables page flipping.  The default is off.

SEE ALSO

       Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)

        1. Wiki page:
           https://www.x.org/wiki/radeon

        2. Overview about amdgpu development code:
           https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-amdgpu

        3. Mailing list:
           https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/amd-gfx

        4. IRC channel:
           #radeon on irc.freenode.net

        5. The bugtracker for amdgpu bugs:
           https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-amdgpu/-/issues

        6. Submit merge requests:
           https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-amdgpu/-/merge_requests

AUTHORS

       Authors include:
       Michel Dänzer            michel@daenzer.net
       Alex Deucher             alexdeucher@gmail.com