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and subject line Bug#360845: fglrx-driver: Option "KernelModuleParam" is unused
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Package: fglrx-driver
Version: 8.23.7-1
Severity: minor
The manpage of fglrx states that there exists an option named
"KernelModuleParam", which presumably passes kernel parameters to the fglrx
kernel module when it is autoloaded.
It seems this option is no longer supported, since Xorg.0.log says:
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "KernelModuleParam" is not used
Also, "modinfo fglrx" returns only one parm:
parm: firegl:s
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.2
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages fglrx-driver depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-12 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 the X.Org X server
Versions of packages fglrx-driver recommends:
ii fglrx-ker 8.23.7-1+2.6.15.2-10.00.Custom ATI binary kernel module for Linux
-- no debconf information
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> Looks like a typo: It must be KernelModuleParm, not Param. But I cannot
> find such a typo in the manpage. Maybe just a read fault error?
Hmm, indeed. Stupid, but given the other faults in the manpage, and the fact
that this option seems to refer to kernel module parameters, which are not
available, made the manpage easy to blame :-)
If anything, the option name is not that wellchosen. It seems thes "kernel
module parameters" are given to the kernel module in some non-standard way, or
perhaps to the X dri module instead or something. Anyway, fixing my typo
completely drowned me in debug info, so the man page is correct (though a
little misleading, might want to add that these options can't be given through
modprobe).
Gr.
Matthijs
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