** Changed in: nvidia-prime (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
** Changed in: fglrx-pxpress (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
** Changed in: jockey (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
** Changed in: fglrx-pxpress (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Alberto Milone (albertomilone)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1198942
Title:
Hybrid Graphics and general enablement for fglrx and nvidia in Precise
for 12.04.3
Status in “fglrx-installer-updates” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in “fglrx-pxpress” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-304” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-319” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in “nvidia-prime” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Bug description:
SRU request:
As per the topic, the purpose of this report is to make sure that
users get graphics drivers that work with Raring's X/Kernel in Precise
12.04.3.
This work also enables support for Hybrid graphics (as planned) and
requires changes in Jockey in addition to the drivers.
This SRU involves the following packages
jockey
nvidia-prime
fglrx-pxpress
nvidia-graphics-drivers-319
nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates
nvidia-graphics-drivers-304
nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates
nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates
nvidia-settings-319
nvidia-settings-319-updates
nvidia-settings-304
nvidia-settings-304-updates
nvidia-persistenced
fglrx-installer-updates
fglrx-installer-experimental-13
Only jockey, nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates and fglrx-installer-updates
already existed in the archive, the rest is in NEW.
The changes in jockey are all documented in jockey's changelog. I
added tests in the test suite to make sure that we simulate hybrid
graphics systems (using fake devices) and test the relevant code
paths.
In short, we don't provide graphics drivers on unsupported systems
with hybrid graphics, thus preventing users from breaking their
systems. When hybrid graphics is available and supported (i.e. there
is a driver which supports it and the Raring stack is installed) not
only do we provide the drivers, we also take care of installing either
fglrx-pxpress or nvidia-prime, which will take care of any required
configuration so that, on next boot, things will work with no user
interaction. Quite an improvement compared with a certain xserver
failure in case of a misconfigured or unsupported system.
As for the drivers, they all work with kernels up to 3.10 and include the
following features:
* NVIDIA's 319 series add support for hybrid graphics, in addition to being
a LTS series. They also replace any experimental driver we uploaded.
* current users of nvidia-current and nvidia-current-updates will be
migrated to nvidia-304 and nvidia-304-updates (same driver release, only
different name).
* All (obsolete) experimental nvidia drivers will be migrated to
nvidia-319-updates.
* fglrx-updates will be updated to the latest stable release.
* fglrx-experimental-13 will replace all experimental releases and add
stable support for hybrid graphics.
* nvidia-persistenced is a daemon (only for the 319 series) which, by
default, preserves the standard behaviour of the nvidia driver. It makes it
easier for users to enable persistence mode to work around bugs in the driver
(e.g. LP: #1202152)
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