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31.Dd October 9, 2019
32.Dt RADEON 4
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm radeon
36.Nd Driver for AMD/ATI Radeon graphics chipsets
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40driver provides support for the AMD Radeon graphics chips.
41Please refer the
42.Sx Loader Tunables
43section in
44.Xr syscons 4
45for more information about how to make the console work with
46.Nm .
47.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
48Tunables can be set at the
49.Xr loader 8
50prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
51.Xr loader.conf 5 .
52.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
53.It Va drm.radeon.no_wb
54Disables AGP writeback for scratch registers.
55.It Va drm.radeon.dynclks
56Enable/Disable dynamic clocks
57.\".It Va drm.radeon.r4xx_atom
58.\"XXX
59.\".It Va drm.radeon.vram_limit
60.\"XXX
61.\".It Va drm.radeon.agpmode
62.\"XXX
63.\".It Va drm.radeon.gart_size
64.\"XXX
65.\".It Va drm.radeon.benchmarking
66.\"XXX
67.\".It Va drm.radeon.testing
68.\"XXX
69.\".It Va drm.radeon.connector_table
70.\"XXX
71.\".It Va drm.radeon.tv
72.\"XXX
73.\".It Va drm.radeon.audio
74.\"XXX
75.\".It Va drm.radeon.disp_priority
76.\"XXX
77.\".It Va drm.radeon.hw_i2c
78.\"XXX
79.\".It Va drm.radeon.pcie_gen2
80.\"XXX
81.It Va drm.radeon.msi
82Enable/Disable MSI (message signaled interrupts)
831 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto (default)
84.\".It Va drm.radeon.lockup_timeout
85.\"XXX
86.It Va drm.radeon.fastfb
87Direct FB access for IGP chips, which can significantly improve performance
88for some applications.
89This option only affects the RS690, RS780 and RS880 chipsets, and only
90when no sideport memory is available.
911 = enable, 0 = disable (default)
92.It Va drm.radeon.dpm
93DPM (dynamic power management) support.
941 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto (default)
95.\".It Va drm.radeon.aspm
96.\"XXX
97.It Va drm.radeon.backlight
98Backlight support.
991 = enable, 0 = disable, -1 = auto (default)
100.El
101.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
102If display backlight level can be controlled by the GPU (which is often
103the case in notebooks), the sysctl
104.Va hw.backlight_level
105can be used to adjust the backlight level.
106Permitted values are from 0 to the value returned from the
107.Va hw.backlight_max
108sysctl.
109On older Radeon GPU models than the R600 series, the
110.Va hw.backlight_level
111and
112.Va hw.backlight_max
113sysctl variables are no longer available by default.
114Setting the
115.Va drm.radeon.backlight
116tunable to
117.Dq 1
118will force-enable native backlight control via the
119sysctl variables in this case.
120.Sh SEE ALSO
121.Xr drm 4 ,
122.Xr syscons 4
123.Sh HISTORY
124The
125.Nm
126driver was first available for Linux.
127.Sh BUGS
128Enabling
129.Va drm.radeon.fastfb
130on RS690 chipsets can cause graphics corruption when hardware acceleration
131is used.
132Display backlight control with the
133.Va hw.backlight_level
134sysctl is only supported for chipsets using AtomBIOS (which includes some
135R400 chipsets and all later generations).
136