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authorAlex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>2015-04-20 11:57:52 -0400
committerAlex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>2015-04-20 11:57:52 -0400
commitff62bf6e9dce55dbde92baf4fa30193c7344ee8a (patch)
treeefcbe45256256ae8cf1ada3761b0e744a13991b0 /man
amdgpu: add the xf86-video-amdgpu driver
This adds the new xf86-video-amdgpu driver for newer AMD GPUs. Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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-rw-r--r--man/amdgpu.man105
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diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
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+#
+# Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
+# paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
+# Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
+# THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+# FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
+# DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+
+drivermandir = $(DRIVER_MAN_DIR)
+
+driverman_PRE = @DRIVER_NAME@.man
+
+driverman_DATA = $(driverman_PRE:man=@DRIVER_MAN_SUFFIX@)
+
+EXTRA_DIST = @DRIVER_NAME@.man
+
+CLEANFILES = $(driverman_DATA)
+
+
+# String replacements in MAN_SUBSTS now come from xorg-macros.m4 via configure
+
+
+SUFFIXES = .$(DRIVER_MAN_SUFFIX) .man
+
+.man.$(DRIVER_MAN_SUFFIX):
+ $(AM_V_GEN)$(SED) $(MAN_SUBSTS) < $< > $@
diff --git a/man/amdgpu.man b/man/amdgpu.man
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+.ds q \N'34'
+.TH AMDGPU __drivermansuffix__ __vendorversion__
+.SH NAME
+amdgpu \- AMD RADEON GPU video driver
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.B "Section \*qDevice\*q"
+.BI " Identifier \*q" devname \*q
+.B " Driver \*qamdgpu\*q"
+\ \ ...
+.B EndSection
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B amdgpu
+is an __xservername__ driver for AMD RADEON-based video cards with the
+following features:
+.PP
+.PD 0
+.TP 2
+\(bu
+Support for 24-bit pixel depth;
+.TP
+\(bu
+RandR support up to version 1.4;
+.TP
+\(bu
+3D acceleration;
+.PD
+.SH SUPPORTED HARDWARE
+The
+.B amdgpu
+driver supports CI and newer families' video cards.
+.PD
+.SH CONFIGURATION DETAILS
+Please refer to __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__) for general configuration
+details. This section only covers configuration details specific to this
+driver.
+.PP
+The following driver
+.B Options
+are supported:
+.TP
+.BI "Option \*qSWcursor\*q \*q" boolean \*q
+Selects software cursor. The default is
+.B off.
+.TP
+.BI "Option \*qNoAccel\*q \*q" boolean \*q
+Enables or disables all hardware acceleration.
+.br
+The default is to
+.B enable
+hardware acceleration.
+.TP
+.BI "Option \*qZaphodHeads\*q \*q" string \*q
+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.
+.br
+For example:
+.B
+Option \*qZaphodHeads\*q \*qLVDS,VGA-0\*q
+will assign xrandr outputs LVDS and VGA-0 to this instance of the driver.
+.TP
+.BI "Option \*qEnablePageFlip\*q \*q" boolean \*q
+Enable DRI2 page flipping. The default is
+.B on.
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+__xservername__(__appmansuffix__), __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__), Xserver(__appmansuffix__), X(__miscmansuffix__)
+.IP " 1." 4
+Wiki page:
+.RS 4
+http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon
+.RE
+.IP " 2." 4
+Overview about amdgpu development code:
+.RS 4
+http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-amdgpu/
+.RE
+.IP " 3." 4
+Mailing list:
+.RS 4
+http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
+.RE
+.IP " 4." 4
+IRC channel:
+.RS 4
+#radeon on irc.freenode.net
+.RE
+.IP " 5." 4
+Query the bugtracker for amdgpu bugs:
+.RS 4
+https://bugs.freedesktop.org/query.cgi?product=xorg&component=Driver/AMDgpu
+.RE
+.IP " 6." 4
+Submit bugs & patches:
+.RS 4
+https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg&component=Driver/AMDgpu
+.RE
+
+.SH AUTHORS
+.nf
+Authors include:
+Michel D\(:anzer \fImichel@daenzer.net\fP
+Alex Deucher \fIalexdeucher@gmail.com\fP