Helpful ATIconfig fglrx commands

ATI Mobility™ Product Support

The ATI Proprietary Linux driver is designed to support the following ATI Mobility™ products:

• Mobility™ Radeon® X1800
• Mobility™ Radeon® 9800
• Mobility™ Radeon® X1600
• Mobility™ Radeon® 9600
• Mobility™ Radeon® X1400
• Mobility™ Radeon® 9550
• Mobility™ Radeon® X1300
• Mobility™ Radeon® 9500
• Mobility™ Radeon® X800
• Mobility™ Radeon® 9000
• Mobility™ Radeon® X700
• Mobility™ Radeon® 9200
• Mobility™ Radeon® X600
• Radeon® Xpress 200M series
• Mobility™ Radeon® X300

ATI Integrated Product Support

The ATI Proprietary Linux driver is designed to support the following ATI Integrated products:

• Radeon® Xpress 200 series
• Radeon® 9100 IGP
• Radeon® 9200 IGP
• Mobility™ Radeon® 9000 IGP series
• Mobility™ Radeon® 9100 IGP series

Caution: This software driver provides 2D support only for the ATI Radeon® 9100 IGP and ATI Radeon® 9100 PRO IGP.

ATI Desktop Product Family Support

The ATI Proprietary Linux driver is designed to support the following ATI desktop products:

• Radeon® X1900 series
• Radeon® 9800 series
• Radeon® X1800 series
• Radeon® 9600 series
• Radeon® X1600 series
• Radeon® 9200 series
• Radeon® X1300 series
• Radeon® 9000 series
• Radeon® X850 series
• Radeon® 9700 series
• Radeon® X800 series
• Radeon® 9550 series
• Radeon® X700 series
• Radeon® 9500 series
• Radeon® X600 series
• Radeon® 9100 series
• Radeon® X300/X550 series
• Radeon® 8500 series

Just make sure your product is listed here, otherwise following commands are not supported.

Helpful ATIconfig commands

Initial setup (creates device section using fglrx)

 aticonfig --initial

Enable Video acceleration (Xv Overlay)

     aticonfig -overlay-type=Xv

Force fglrx to use kernel’s AGP driver instead of own implementation

(only use when internal agpgart doesn’t work)

    aticonfig --internal-agp=off

Note: Newer fglrx driver versions do not include an internal AGPGART so the kernel agpgart is used no matter what.

Use extended desktop with two monitors (dual-head and big desktop)

    aticonfig --initial=dual-head --screen-layout=right

This command will generate a dual head configuration file with the second screen located to the right of the first screen.

Setup big Desktop to Horizontal and Set Overlay on the Secondary Display

    aticonfig --dtop=horizontal --overlay-on=1

This command will set up big desktop to horizontal and set overlay on the secondary display.

If black borders doesn’t remove try this :

 aticonfig --query-monitor # to see monitors
 aticonfig --query-dispattrib=tmds2 #to see supported values
 aticonfig --set-dispattrib=tmds2,sizeX:1920 # to set X resolution
 aticonfig --set-dispattrib=tmds2,sizey:1080 # to set Y resolution
 aticonfig --set-dispattrib=tmds2,positionX:0 # to set X position to 0
 aticonfig --set-dispattrib=tmds2,positionY:0 # to set Y position to 0

 Print information about power states.

    aticonfig --list-powerstates

Or, for us lazy folk, the shorter version is

   aticonfig --lsp

Set a power state to the lowest (battery friendly)

    aticonfig --set-powerstate=1

Note: check out available power states using aticonfig –list-powerstates
Note: this option does not work when an external monitor is connected

Print information about connected and enabled monitors

    aticonfig --query-monitor

How to enable two monitors on the fly

Assume you have two monitors already setup correctly
This example enables laptop internal monitor (lvds) and external monitor (crt1)

    aticonfig --enable-monitor=lvds,crt1 --effective=now

Note: aticonfig –enable-monitor=STRING,STRING where STRING can be one of the following set, separated by commas: none,crt1,crt2,lvds,tv,tmds1,tmds2,auto.

Only 2 displays can be enabled at the same time. Any displays that are not on the list will be disabled.

Note: check out connected and enabled monitors using aticonfig –query-monitor

Turn off the second monitor on the fly and start to use only laptop internal monitor (lvds)

    aticonfig --enable-monitor=lvds --effective=now

Swap monitors on the fly when using big desktop mode

    aticonfig --swap-monitor --effective=now

Note: This only works for big desktop setup. This will swap the contents on the two monitors.

Get temperature:

   aticonfig --odgt

Get Fan speed:

   aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get fanspeed 0"

Replace 0 with the FAN number. i.e. 0, 1. etc.

Set Fan Speed:

   aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 40"

Where 0 is the fan number and 40 is the percent of speed you want it to run.

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