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Bug#517490: xserver-xorg-video-all doesn't depend on drivers for older ATI Radeons



Package: xserver-xorg-video-all
Version: 7.3+10
Severity: wishlist

It looks like for ATI Radeon cards, xserver-xorg-video-all pulls in xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd, but not xserver-xorg-video-radeon. That's fine for rv500 or newer cards (I have no idea what the pros/cons of radeon vs. radeonhd are, but Debian preferring one seems fine), but my rv370 is only supported with the 'radeon' driver. It's not current hardware, but the rv3xx/4xx series was quite widespread and only discontinued in 2005, so doesn't seem that unreasonable to support out of the box: xserver-xorg-video-all pulls in drivers for considerably more obscure hardware. Since 'radeon' and 'radeonhd' don't appear to conflict, is it possible to pull in both?

Not a *huge* deal, but I'm used to xserver-xorg-video-all pulling in any driver that I might reasonably need, and on this machine it didn't, so filing a wishlist request.

Thanks,
Mark




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