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
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
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
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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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 who
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
** 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.
