System notifies about proprietary drivers to install, but they are not needed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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elementary OS |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After first install, you get the icon for proprietary drivers in the upper left. However, installing these (at least with ATI) results in very bad performance and lots of weird issues, as well as it breaks the system settings for displays (you have to use the ATI catalyst controller).
The drivers installed by default, though, seem to work wonderfully for my ATI card.
I know it's not really a bug, but maybe hiding that proprietary driver dialog away somewhere or at least notifying the user that they should be OK with the default drivers would be nice.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.284-0~
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Thu Nov 15 15:40:47 2012
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Beta 1 amd64 (20121114)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:
ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
AMD/ATI proprietary graphics drivers that properly support pantheon/ gnome-shell are still in development.