Problem still present in gutsy. Tried to send an email to the maintainer - his email address does not exists anymore. Hereby for any maintainer that might stumble upon it.
Hello, are you still the maintainer for the fglrx-source ? If so, please find attached a patch which solves some of the problems mentioned in bug 45563: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/45563 These problems exist apparently for a long time, and have made this package useless since Warty. The discussion on the bug page mentions the possibility of using the latest driver from ATI instead, however, this information is now outdated as: "Several distribution-specific packaging scripts are not up-to-date in this release. In particular packaging for 64-bit Ubuntu versions is known to be broken. A topic number is not available for this issue" (Release notes for 8.42.3) This leaves people with an ATI card unable to use their system properly. Using the "pre-cooked" restricted drivers is not an option for people that compile their own kernel. (For example, because are forced to do so due to bugs in the kernel shipped with Gutsy, but would like to boot their computer anyway...) Coincidentally, the existence of the "pre-cooked" drivers proves that there is a working system to compile fglrx drivers for current kernels, which begs the question why the fglrx-kernel-source package should be so faulty. Best regards, and thanks in advance for anything you can do, ** Attachment added: "fixes some packaging issues" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10269761/fglrx-source-patch -- Build of fglrx module fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/45563 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
