How to over-ride the autoconfigured Device-section?

[Michel Dänzer]

On Die, 2013-02-05 at 15:15 +0200, Harald Hannelius wrote: 
> 
> I'd like to try out a few options for the radeon-driver, but I can't for my 
> life figure out why my custom conf-file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d is 
> ignored.
> 
> The file looks like this;
> 
> # cat 53-radeon.conf
> Section "Device"
>  	Driver	"radeon"
>  	#Identifier "Device0"
>  	#Identifier "Configured Video Device"
>  	#Identifier "Default Device"
>  	Identifier "ATI Radeon HD 5570"
>  	#Identifier "RADEON(0)"
>  	BusID "PCI:0:1:0:0"
>  	#ChipID 0x68d9
>  	#disable
>  	Option "SwapbuffersWait" "off"
>  	# enable
>  	Option "ColorTiling"  "on"
>  	# enable
>  	Option "ColorTiling2D" "on"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> I seem to be unable to guess at what I should put in the Identifier line so 
> these changes get applied. The files gets read, a typo in it will make the 
> x-server unstartable.

Any particular reason you're not using /etc/X11/xorg.conf instead
of /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/53-radeon.conf ?


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