Xorg ATI Driver Kernel Configuration

[Igor Živković]

​http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/x7driver.html#xorg-ati-driver

The book says to enable modesetting but it looks like it's deprecated in kernel config:

"Userspace modesetting is deprecated for quite some time now, so enable this only if you have ancient versions of the DDX drivers."

[Armin K]

The book instructions were based on older kernels. The book doesn't mention the current option, but instead:

Enable modesetting on radeon by default - NEW DRIVER: Y

As you can see, it isn't the same as the current one:

Enable userspace modesetting on radeon (DEPRECATED)

I should update the instructions for newer kernels when I have some time. Untill then, patches welcome.

[Igor Živković]

Support for UMS was dropped in version 7.0 of the ATI drivers BTW.

[Armin K]

Thanks for the patch. Fixed in r11184

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