Comment 3 for bug 116981

for testing purposes, I edited my /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common like so:

DISABLED_MODULES="fglrx nv"

now r-d-m answers

$ sudo ./restricted-manager --list
warning: not considering manually disabled modules: fglrx nvidia nvidia_new nvidia_legacy

Note that before, it would just say "your hardware doesn't need any restricted drivers", wich is obviously wrong.

I read posts on the forums of people who are having a really bad time trying to activate restricted modules, r-d-m can be very useful, but if a user has previously edited /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common (maybe he followed some dirty howto somewhere :) we should warn him that some modules are manually disabled.

A best fix would be: let r-d-m edit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common if the user wants to activate a restricted module via r-d-m.

Please test it and let me know what you think