[RV530] "radeon" driver now depends on "ati" to be autoloaded, previously it did not

[Max Bowsher]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati

Prior to 1:6.12.2-2ubuntu1, I had only xserver-xorg-video-radeon installed, *without* xserver-xorg-video-ati. This used to work fine. As of that version, X now fails to load the driver unless the -ati wrapper is present. This is probably related to pci ids no longer being shipped in the -radeon package. Either X should learn the necessary pci ids to load radeon directly, or the radeon package should depend on ati if that's necessary for it to ever be properly autoloaded.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jun 6 17:45:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: LENOVO 0674KSG
Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.12.2-2ubuntu1
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=57eb71e0-dd7f-48b8-86a1-1cf6593fd188 ro
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-8.9-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu21
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.4.1-1ubuntu1
 libdrm2 2.4.11-0ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.2-2ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-8-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 06/03/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7FETA7WW (2.25 )
dmi.board.name: 0674KSG
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7FETA7WW(2.25):bd06/03/2008:svnLENOVO:pn0674KSG:pvrThinkPadZ61p:rvnLENOVO:rn0674KSG:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 0674KSG
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad Z61p
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.30-8-generic

[lspci]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M56GL [Mobility FireGL V5200] [1002:71c4]
     Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:202b]

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi Max, could you describe the use case that would result in a configuration such as you describe? It sounds non-standard.

[Max Bowsher (maxb)]

The use case is a desire to uninstall the old -r128 and -mach64 drivers because they are not used on my system. This removes the -ati driver too by dependencies.

So yes, it's a situation that would be encountered only when a user was exercising some fairly fine-grained package selection. But, it did work fine in the past.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

This was recently added to 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."

so, closing the bug. Saving half a meg of disk space is not that important.