Upgrade Manager upgrades fglrx even when card is unsupported on new release
Bug #1069237 reported by
Daniel Letzeisen
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #1068739: [fglrx] logging in after dist-upgrade results in broken ui.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Bug Description
Example: Using a RadeonHD 4x00 card on Precise/12.04 with fglrx works well. However, fglrx dropped support in newer releases for those cards, and the version of fglrx in Ubuntu Quantal/12.10 does not support those cards. When doing a distro upgrade, update-manager does not consider that the new version of fglrx may not support the card. As a result, user is left with a broken X after the upgrade.
Possible Solution: Make upgrade manager a bit more intelligent. It should not blindly upgrade fglrx if the card is not supported on the version of fglrx in the new release.
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.