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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to jockey in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1078290 Title: Add package fglrx-experimental for tracking fglrx beta drivers Status in “fglrx-installer-experimental-9” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “fglrx-installer-experimental-9” source package in Precise: Fix Released Status in “jockey” source package in Precise: Fix Released Status in “fglrx-installer-experimental-9” source package in Quantal: Triaged Status in “jockey” source package in Quantal: Invalid Status in “fglrx-installer-experimental-9” source package in Raring: Triaged Status in “jockey” source package in Raring: Invalid Bug description: [Impact] AMD posts beta versions of their drivers to be tested over several weeks. These drivers usually include important features and fixes but also sometimes include known issues or regressions that make them unsuitable or too risky for us to consider inclusion in the fglrx-updates package. However certain commercial Linux games require features/fixes present only in these AMD beta drivers at the time of their release. Ubuntu users who purchase these games currently have to manually install the beta driver (or wait a month or two for it to appear in -updates). Providing these drivers via fglrx-experimental will enable them to install and run the game within the Ubuntu packaging system. [Fix] The fglrx-experimental-NNN binary package is established (provided by the fglrx-installer-experimental source package) for quantal 12.10 and precise 12.04. This uses the packaging scripts from fglrx-updates, with the renamed package and new .run files. The fglrx-experimental-NNN package will be visible to users via Jockey as normal. When a user installs the experimental package, any other fglrx drivers will be disabled. They will remain on the selected fglrx-experimental-NNN until they upgrade to a new Ubuntu release or LTS point release, at which point they'll be returned to fglrx- current. They can of course manually switch from fglrx-experimental- NNN back to fglrx or fglrx-updates (or some newer fglrx-experimental- MMM) if they wish. The control file for the experimental package proposed for precise has some differences from the one in quantal, and also has some differences against the non-experimental fglrx driver in precise. Here is an explanation of those differences in turn: * Conflicts/Replaces on fglrx-*-modaliases (from precise's fglrx package) are no longer needed. The modaliases packages were used in previous releases but no longer exist in precise. Since people can't upgrade from those previous versions directly to fglrx*experimental, there is no need to have Conflicts/Replaces. * Conflicts/Replaces/Provides of various nvidia/fglrx packages (from quantal's fglrx-experimental package) are only needed for quantal forward. These are required by the new restricted drivers UI in quantal. Since that UI is not in precise, we don't need it in precise. [Regression Potential] The reason we're adding this package in the first place is because of concerns that beta drivers will have a high risk of regressions. Thus, users need to be aware they are taking these risks when they opt-in to the driver. As mentioned above, fglrx and fglrx-updates will still be available to them in case they have problems. In a worst case scenario they may need to do this from a recovery session. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer-experimental-9/+bug/1078290/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
