2013/2/22 Scott Ritchie <scottritc...@ubuntu.com>: > I'm not sure what the underlying fix should be, but it is making me question > if there's some sort of larger process issue here because we've managed to > drop this on the floor for so long.
A good question. It might be that the proprietary drivers haven't been pushed in QA/Testing teams high enough, compared to how much users use them and how jockey suggests installing them. The problem is furthered by the history of non-Ubuntu bugs/problems with at least fglrx. Right now there has been the case of AMD dropping support for HD 2000-4000 series in the newer drivers, and only the newer drivers support newer kernels. I'm not sure what's the exact situation for 12.04.2 (or 12.10) - do they suggest an uninstallable fglrx driver for HD 2000 - 4000 users or not. I think the Modaliases of the package's control file is used, so the question is whether that is properly stripped of the now unsupported series. If anyone wants to tinker... -Timo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
