Comment 9 for bug 1174278

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Mike C. Fletcher (mcfletch) wrote :

This bug also affects Dell Inspiron 15R laptops (Ubuntu Certified Hardware for 12.04) when updated to 13.04. The machine winds up at a text-only console, so the user experience is rather poor.

Latest Beta drivers from AMD + explicitly installing the qauntal libudev0 and xserver-xorg-video-intel brings the machine up correctly (as in http://askubuntu.com/questions/205112/how-do-i-get-amd-intel-hybrid-graphics-drivers-working/288355#288355).

Would it be reasonable to declare a dependency on those explicit versions of the conflicting packages in the fglrx-installer package? Having people's laptops that have a very common hardware configuration (dual mode AMD/Intel graphics) turn console-only on upgrade seems a bit problematic.

Alternately, running "amdconfig --px-igpu" if the condition is detected (lspci has both Intel and AMD VGA drivers and the newer xorg-server-intel and libudev0 packages are installed) might be a workaround, preferably with a user-visible warning of some type.