So I'm thinking of upgrading my Saucy Salamander to Trusty Tahr now that the final LTS is out. I figure I can remove 3.14.0-031400rc2-generic & other non-repo kernels that I fooled with, disable oibaf/graphics-drivers, reboot into the borked radeon saucy graphics, dist-upgrade to Trusty Tahr with its "3.13.0-24.46 Ubuntu Linux kernel which is based on the v3.13.9 upstream stable Linux kernel." According to the Tahr release notes the new LTS seems like it should handle my card.
From the version numbers as I understand them this should be good enough to give my Radeon HD 7790 an acceptable radeon driver. I guess I'll report back if smoke starts billowing out of my case. I don't know that I would be using the radeonSI stuff anymore, so I gather I can disable my xorg.conf.
The Xorg display server and drivers have been updated to the 15.0.1 release and mesa has been updated to 10.1.
Section "Module"
Load "dri2"
Load "glamoregl"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "ati" # was radeon
Driver "ati" # was radeib
Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection
Load "dri2"
Load "glamoregl"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "ati" # was radeon
Driver "ati" # was radeib
Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection
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