[oneiric] Error when enabling fglrx: "SystemError: E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."

[Lukáš Chmela]

Jockey finds correctly that proprietary fglrx driver is available for installation but when clicking the Enable button, it ends with the following error message:

SystemError: E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: jockey-gtk 0.9.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic 3.0.0
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 1 17:24:03 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/jockey-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110731)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
MachineType: Acer Aspire 8943G
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-7-generic root=UUID=3ef3d61d-7499-43dc-8e3b-54103ef765ae ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: jockey
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/11/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix
dmi.bios.version: V1.06
dmi.board.name: SM83-CP
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenix:bvrV1.06:bd08/11/2010:svnAcer:pnAspire8943G:pvrNotApplicable:rvnAcer:rnSM83-CP:rvrNotApplicable:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 8943G
dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer

[Eylem (eylemkoca)]

The same thing happened to me when I was trying to enable NVIDIA drivers on Oneiric, August 20 daily build.

[jeff E (thenessus)]

happens to me when trying to install Broadcom STA driver. daily build, 22 of September.

[zidarsk8 (zidarsk8)]

I get the sam error, when trying to install the Broadcom STA driver. When installing the wireless drivers, I also see the error for nvidia_173 even though I don't even have that driver listed anywhere.