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Re: Xorg fails on ATI after update (mmio aperture)



On 03/24/2017 06:13 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> yes, that works even when using the stock kernel and I can stop disabling the atyfb.

That's great to hear!

> Very good - we have a better solution than compiling different kernels! Perhaps it
> could be at least be mentioned or best pre-configured in yaboot or so?

I agree on the documentation part. Adding it to the release notes or the wiki sounds
like a reasonable idea. There is a wiki page where it could be added, see [1].

I disagree on the default setting though. Again, enabling this setting makes the
system potentially more insecure, so it should be disabled by default.

> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo

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