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Aaahaaap: Power Management doesnt work with KMS at the moment

2009-12-07T13:38:43Z

Power Management doesnt work with KMS at the moment

Tonko: /* Kernel Mode setting (KMS) */

2009-10-26T18:55:43Z

‎Kernel Mode setting (KMS)

Tonko at 10:50, 20 August 2009

2009-08-20T10:50:08Z

Jaskiern at 04:32, 1 March 2008

2008-03-01T04:32:07Z

Xoby: /* See also */

2006-12-06T20:35:31Z

‎See also

Thinker: clarified

2006-09-21T14:06:42Z

clarified

Thinker at 09:15, 21 September 2006

2006-09-21T09:15:24Z

New page

This is the X.org driver for recent ATI graphic chips. In conjunction with a DRI driver such as [[r300]], it also provides 3D acceleration.

===Supported graphic chips===
* [[ATI Mobility Radeon 7000]]
* [[ATI Mobility Radeon 7500]]
* [[ATI Mobility Radeon 9000]]
* [[ATI Mobility Radeon 9600]]
* [[ATI Mobility Radeon X300]]
* [[ATI Mobility Radeon X600]]

===See also===
* [[Additional options for the radeon driver]]
* [[fglrx]]

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 KMS on radeon is the default on Fedora 11 and newer
-KMS on radeon has some known limitations for now, including lack of Svideo output support (partly fixed in 2.6.32), and possibly multi display support being broken. Particulair on older chips (RV250 and older) you might encounter various display corruption problems, or have no acceleration (RV100). If you encounter problems, you can disable KMS by booting with the {{bootparm|nomodeset|}} kernel option.
+KMS on radeon has some known limitations for now, including
 ===User Mode setting (UMS)===

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 KMS on radeon is the default on Fedora 11 and newer
-KMS on radeon has some known limitations for now, including lack of Svideo output support, and possibly multi display support being broken. If you encounter problems, you can disable KMS by booting with the {{bootparm|nomodeset|}} kernel option.
+KMS on radeon has some known limitations for now, including lack of Svideo output support (partly fixed in 2.6.32), and possibly multi display support being broken. Particulair on older chips (RV250 and older) you might encounter various display corruption problems, or have no acceleration (RV100). If you encounter problems, you can disable KMS by booting with the {{bootparm|nomodeset|}} kernel option.
 ===User Mode setting (UMS)===

← Older revision		Revision as of 10:50, 20 August 2009
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	X.org includes a driver, '''radeon''', for recent ATI graphic chips (i.e., those branded "Radeon"). This driver supports 2D acceleration and some other chip features. In conjunction with a suitable DRI driver such as [[r300]], it also provides 3D acceleration.		X.org includes a driver, '''radeon''', for recent ATI graphic chips (i.e., those branded "Radeon"). This driver supports 2D acceleration and some other chip features. In conjunction with a suitable DRI driver such as [[r300]], it also provides 3D acceleration.
		+
		+	===Kernel Mode setting (KMS)===
		+	KMS is new and is introduced for the ATI Radeon graphics chips in kernel 2.6.31, and is still marked as part of Staging because there is a potential local security issue with using it.
		+
		+	It basically means that the kernel is responsible for the initialization and setup of the video card. And removes a long standing contention between the kernel and userspace.
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		+	KMS on radeon is the default on Fedora 11 and newer
		+
		+	KMS on radeon has some known limitations for now, including lack of Svideo output support, and possibly multi display support being broken. If you encounter problems, you can disable KMS by booting with the {{bootparm\|nomodeset\|}} kernel option.
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		+	===User Mode setting (UMS)===
		+	UMS is the legacy mode setting, and is used when the kernel does not support modesetting, or if it is disabled. It basically means the radeon xorg driver does the initialization and modesetting itself.

	==Supported graphic chips==		==Supported graphic chips==

← Older revision		Revision as of 14:06, 21 September 2006
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−	~~This is the~~ X.org driver for recent ATI graphic chips. In conjunction with a DRI driver such as [[r300]], it also provides 3D acceleration.	+	X.org includes a driver called <tt>radeon</tt> for recent ATI graphic chips (i.e., those branded "Radeon"). This driver supports 2D acceleration and some other chip features. In conjunction with a suitable DRI driver such as [[r300]], it also provides 3D acceleration.

	===Supported graphic chips===		===Supported graphic chips===

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-X.org includes a driver called <tt>radeon</tt> for recent ATI graphic chips (i.e., those branded "Radeon"). This driver supports 2D acceleration and some other chip features. In conjunction with a suitable DRI driver such as [[r300]], it also provides 3D acceleration.
+X.org includes a driver, '''radeon''', for recent ATI graphic chips (i.e., those branded "Radeon"). This driver supports 2D acceleration and some other chip features. In conjunction with a suitable DRI driver such as [[r300]], it also provides 3D acceleration.
-===Supported graphic chips===
+==Supported graphic chips==
 * [[ATI Mobility Radeon 7000]]
 * [[ATI Mobility Radeon 7500]]
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 * [[ATI Mobility Radeon X600]]
-===See also===
+== See also ==
 * [[DRI options for ATI Radeon]]
 * [[Additional options for the radeon driver]]
 * [[fglrx]]