On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:29:51PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > I agree with Josh Triplett that autodetection looking only for 'ati' > rather than for the individual modules which 'ati' can implicitly load > is a bug that should be fixed. (The "point" of doing so - questioned in > the last comment on that bug report - would be to allow the obvious > 'apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-radeon' from a system that > previously didn't have X to Just Work, and to allow people to only > install the module for the card they actually have, not the ones for the > cards they don't have.) > > Unfortunately, that bug report has been open and (apparently) > unaddressed since early 2012, so it's not looking likely to get changed > any time soon...
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