Bug#732216: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Driver does not support Glamor 2D acceleration

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 19:26:10 +0100, Jan Binder wrote:

> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:7.2.0-1+b2
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> On newer Radeon cards from the Southern Islands and Northern Islands  family, Xorg does not really work "out of the box"
> due to missing libglamor support in the ddx and missing libglamor.
> 
> The libglamor package even exists as a Debian repository as an unreleased version and recompiling the ddx
> with this package and --enable-glamor even works, so why force me to do all of this myself and have apt remove all of my xorg
> installation every time X gets some update, just because the maintainer will only look after the ubuntu branch of that package?
> 
If you care about this and want to look after this driver (and the
glamor package) in Debian, I'm sure that'll be appreciated.

Cheers,
Julien
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