Changeset 9bff4bc for x/installing/x7driver-ati.xml

Timestamp:

02/10/2015 02:12:14 AM (9 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

41dbe86f

Parents:

f9dd885

Message:

xorg-server-1.17.0

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@15486 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• x/installing/x7driver-ati.xml (modified) (1 diff)

x/installing/x7driver-ati.xml

@@ -197 +197 @@
         Decoder ring for engineering vs marketing names</ulink>. Please note
         that Glamor acceleration can be used with other chips as well, from the
-        R300 onwards, but it has not been tested recently.
+        R300 onwards. On at least some Northern Islands chips it is beneficial.
       </para>
 
       <para>
         Glamor acceleration is not enabled by default for chipsets that don't
-        use "radeonsi" Gallium3D driver. You have to use a
+        use "radeonsi" Gallium3D driver. You have to use an
         <filename>xorg.conf</filename> file to enable it. To enable
         Glamor for cards other than "Southern Islands" and later, create the
-        following <filename>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</filename> as the
-        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
-      </para>
-
-<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/X11/xorg.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
-<literal>Section "Module"
-        Load "dri2"
-        Load "glamoregl"
-EndSection
-
-Section "Device"
+        following file in
+        <filename class="directory">${XORG_PREFIX}/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/</filename>
+        as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+      </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; ${XORG_PREFIX}/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-glamor.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal>Section "Device"
         Identifier "radeon"
-        Driver "radeon"
+        Driver "ati"
         Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
 EndSection</literal>