Bug#868581: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu doesn't start due to incompatibility to DRM in Debian 9.0

[Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>]

On 16/07/17 04:56 PM, Wolf-Dieter Groll wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
> Version: 1.2.0-1+b1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: newcomer
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I tried to switch from the "radeon" to the the "amdgpu" driver
> by adding /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf with the following lines:
>          Section "Device"
>              Identifier "AMD"
>              Driver "amdgpu"
>          EndSection

This is invalid configuration. The xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu/radeon 
drivers can only work with the corresponding kernel driver respectively, 
and Xorg will use the right driver by default automatically.


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