fglrx needs to be modprobed in /etc/modules

[John Dong]

Binary package hint: restricted-manager

On both my computer and a friend's, fglrx needs to be in /etc/modules in order for fglrx 3D acceleration to work. Unlike nvidia.ko, fglrx will NOT attempt to modprobe fglrx.ko automatically, but will rather fall back to 2D fglrx mode.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hm, it seems to work without this for Michael Vogt. Can you please check if you still happen to have an /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-restricted which contains 'fglrx'? Does removing that file make fglrx load automatically again?

[John Dong (jdong)]

Got nothing blacklisted, but removing fglrx from /etc/modules makes X
fallback to 2D.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Alright, thanks for confirming. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't due to some old cruft from earlier versions.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 restricted-manager (0.7) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   [ Johan Kiviniemi ]
   * RestrictedManager/core.py: Save the module cache *after* parsing
     modalias.override.
   * debian/restricted-manager.postinst: Invalidate cache files saved by
     earlier versions.
 .
   [ Martin Pitt ]
   * RestrictedManager/fglrx.py: Add/remove fglrx to/from /etc/modules;
     reportedly it is not always autoloaded. (LP: #91315)
   * po/de.po: Completely translate GUI to discover remaining i18n problems.
   * RestrictedManager/manager.glade, restricted-manager: Move main window
     heading label text into the Python code. For some weird reason, gettext is
     not called on the string when having it in the glade data.
   * applications/restricted-manager.desktop.in: Specify .desktop file as gksu
     -D argument instead of fixed English string to re-use the .desktop's Name
     translations.