Bug#655693: Applies to autodetection as well

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:22:02PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> (20/02/2012):
> > As far as I can tell, the X server autodetection used when
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't exist also only looks for "ati", not
> > "radeon".  Thus, when I upgraded a lenny system to squeeze and purged
> > all the X drivers other than "radeon" in the process (to avoid having to
> > upgrade them), X refused to start.  I had to install
> > xserver-xorg-video-ati to get the X server to start again.
> 
> Self-foot-shooting?

If you mean this bit:

> xserver-xorg-video-ati (1:6.8.1~git20080302.a4398ac3-1) experimental; urgency=low
> 
>   * The 'ati' Xorg driver module does not contain the 'r128' and 'mach64'
>     submodules anymore. Users of Rage or Mach boards may safely remove
>     the xserver-xorg-video-ati packages only if they use Driver "r128" or
>     "mach64" instead of "ati" in their /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
> 
>  -- Brice Goglin <bgoglin@debian.org>  Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:22:03 +0100

Then no, I really do have a radeon, not an r128 or mach64.

Also, the version of xserver-xorg-video-ati in unstable (unlike the one
in squeeze) seems to document this bug in the package description:

> Users of Rage, Mach, or Radeon boards may remove this package only if
> they use Driver "r128", "mach64", or "radeon" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> instead of relying on autodetection.

Documenting it in the description doesn't make it less of a bug. :)

- Josh Triplett