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radeon(7d) [opensolaris man page]

radeon(7d)							      Devices								radeon(7d)

NAME
radeon - DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure)-compliant kernel driver providing 3-dimensional graphic hardware acceleration support. DESCRIPTION
The radeon driver is a DRI-compliant kernel driver that provides graphics hardware acceleration support. DRI is a framework for coordinat- ing OS kernel, 3D graphics hardware, X window system and OpenGL applications. The radeon driver currently supports certain low-end ATI radeon graphics cards, including Radeon X700. FILES
/kernel/drv/radeon 32-bit ELF kernel module (x86). /kernel/drv/amd64/radeon 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWdrmr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |x86 | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Committed | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) /usr/openwin/share/man/man1/Xserver.1 /usr/X11/share/man/man1/Xorg.1 /usr/openwin/share/man/man1/Xsun.1 /usr/openwin/share/man/man5/X11.5 SunOS 5.11 1 Apr 2008 radeon(7d)

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ATI(4)							     Kernel Interfaces Manual							    ATI(4)

NAME
ati - ATI video driver SYNOPSIS
Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "ati" ... EndSection DESCRIPTION
ati is an Xorg wrapper driver for ATI video cards. It autodetects whether your hardware has a Radeon, Rage 128, or Mach64 or earlier class of chipset, and loads the radeon(4), r128(4), or mach64 driver as appropriate. SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The ati driver supports Radeon, Rage 128, and Mach64 and earlier chipsets by loading those drivers. See those manpages for specific cards supported. CONFIGURATION DETAILS
Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details, and the specific card driver for driver configuration details. SEE ALSO
Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7), r128(4), radeon(4) AUTHORS
See the individual driver pages for authors. X Version 11 xf86-video-ati 7.2.99 ATI(4)
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