ATI(4)

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💅 ATI — the manual, but make it cute

okay bestie, welcome to the ati page, section 4 of the Kernel Interfaces Manual 🎀 this is the one about the ATI video driver and honestly? she's an icon, a legend, and the moment. let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ati — the ATI video driver, periodt 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, here's the vibe you drop into your config, no cap:

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

copy it exactly, bestie, don't freestyle the Driver "ati" part or she will NOT load 😭

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so ati is an Xorg wrapper driver for ATI video cards 🫶 she's not out here doing the heavy lifting herself — she's the friend who does the vibe check, autodetects whether your hardware is a Radeon, a Rage 128, or a Mach64 or earlier class of chipset, and then loads the correct actual driver for you:

  • radeon(4) — for the Radeon girlies 🔥
  • r128(4) — for the Rage 128 besties 💜
  • mach64 — for the Mach64 and earlier crew 🌈

she loads whichever one fits, as appropriate. effortless. main character energy, honestly 👑

👑 SUPPORTED HARDWARE 👑

the ati driver supports Radeon, Rage 128, and Mach64 and earlier chipsets — and the way she does it is by loading those drivers we just talked about 💫

heads up babes: for the actual list of specific cards supported, you gotta go read those manpages. she's not gonna list every single one here, that's their job 🙈

🎀 CONFIGURATION DETAILS 🎀

need the general config tea? that lives in xorg.conf(5) 📖

need the driver-specific config tea? that lives in the specific card driver's own page, iykyk ✨

that's the whole thing. go read those, bestie, they got you 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, fr fr:

💖 AUTHORS 💖

no names dropped on this page, bestie — see the individual driver pages for authors 🫶 go give them their flowers over there.

that's the page!! this was X Version 11, xf86-video-ati 22.0.0, and she ate, no crumbs left 🍓 slay, stay hydrated, and don't forget to actually read the radeon(4) page if that's your card 💜✨

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