Thanks. This must be a weakness of launchpad (or I am not doing it
correctly). I had marked my branch "Ready for review for merging into
lp:jockey", but maybe I should have added "Request a review" to that
again. Anyway, the branch shows up at the bug report page, but then you
have those people wh
Sorry, I wasn't aware that you already did that in a branch. I applied
the "some" correction in bzr trunk, thanks for the suggestion.
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ATI "accelerated" driver is misleading and causes problems
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263359
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Excellent. I had one other change in my bzr branch: Add the "some" to
"This driver is required to fully utilise the 3D potential of some ATI
graphics cards" since the driver doesn't work at all with many ATI
cards.
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ATI "accelerated" driver is misleading and causes problems
https://bugs.launchp
This bug was fixed in the package jockey - 0.5~beta1-0ubuntu3
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jockey (0.5~beta1-0ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low
* Merge bug fixes from trunk:
- Update the name of fglrx; radeonhd etc. are accelerated, too.
(LP: #263359)
- ui.py, backend(): Re-detect device drive
Renamed to "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver".
Also, it doesn't even appear in current Intrepid, since it's currently
broken anyway.
** Changed in: jockey (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Committed
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ATI "accelerated" driver is misleading and causes problems
https://bugs.launchpad.n
** Description changed:
Running the Hardware Drivers (a misleading name as well, but that's bug
#202267) with an ATI card, it suggests you to install "ATI accelerated
- driver". Of course that sounds tempting and many people install it when
- they don't need to or shouldn't.
+ graphics driver"
Other than the obvious morally questionable issue of pitching
proprietary software into a GNU/Linux distribution, it also causes a lot
of practical problems. Installing fglrx breaks the open-source mesa
libraries, and people have lot of trouble when they try to revert to the
ati driver. Many comput