On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:10:48PM -0000, Tormod Volden (~offline till March) wrote: > There used to be a hook in modprobe that would only load the fglrx > module if "fglrx" was specified as the driver in xorg.conf. Now that > xorg.conf is not used any longer (for ati at least, and I suppose for > fglrx neither?), this is no solution. I guess our X has been patched to > prefer the fglrx driver if it is installed. One ugly way would then be > to only load the fglrx module if fglrx is installed. >
in my case i only had the fglrx "kernel" part installed and not the xorg part. So this seems to be no solution. > Adding a "fglrx breaks ati" would most precisely describe the truth, but > it we don't really want people to uninstall ati because they want to try > out fglrx. Well, i am not really for promoting fglrx ... if there is the choice of a) either breaking your free ati driver or b) making it painful to test fglrx lets chooose b). > > At least there should be some dependency between linux-source-fglrx and > the fglrx package so that uninstalling fglrx will uninstall linux- > source-fglrx as well. asac, did you keep the fglrx package and switched > to ati in xorg.conf? This scenario should ideally be handled by the > above mentioned module hook. i didnt keep the xorg fglrx package ... i removed it and forgot about the linux-source package. AFAIK, there is no mechanism to make linux-source-fglrx go away if you uninstlal the xorg package; a bit hacky, but we could put the content of linux-source-fglrx into the xorg package. IMO, we should add a hook that doesnt load the fglrx module unless a) fglrx is in xorg.conf b) not -ati xorg driver is installed - Alexander -- [R580] EXA has severe performance impact on ATI R580 (X1900) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315889 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
