Re: Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 DRI support)

[Flavio Stanchina <flavio at stanchina dot net>]

Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> For some reasons I was reading this page:
> http://www.g-tec.co.at/ati.html

First things first: this page is quite old, as it mentions driver
version 3.2.5, and anyway alien is *not* a good way to install the ATI
driver on Debian, even if for whatever reason one doesn't want to use my
packages.

> IMPORTANT: Do NOT select "Direct Rendering Manager"! It's not compatible
> with ATI drivers.

That's correct, you should NOT compile the DRM modules into your kernel
if you plan to use the fglrx driver, because it would conflict.

If you are sure you'll never want to use the XFree86 driver, just
disable the DRM modules, but the best course of action is to enable them
as modules and let the user-space drivers load the modules they require.

I added this as a note on my page.

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Ciao, Flavio