On 01/04/2011 05:08 PM, Brian Murray wrote: > I've recently discovered hundreds of bug reports regarding people trying > to install drivers (bcmwl, fglrx, nvidia) on their Live USB version of > Ubuntu and it failing[1]. Part of the large volume is due to the fact > that the bug reports are automatically reported by apport as package > installation failures. When looking at these bug reports I had a couple > of questions. > > Is installing drivers on a Live USB version of Ubuntu something that is > supported? > > It seems to me that there are a lot of people who think it should be and > I believe it would a useful way for people to test the development > release of Ubuntu and the latest drivers. If it isn't though we should > stop the automatic reporting of this classification of bug reports[2]. > > There are also some bug reports[3] that have empty > DpkgTerminalLog.txt[4] attachments. > > How did this happen and can it be fixed? > > Can these be marked as duplicates of bug 557023? (Provided they are on > live media and about installing drivers of course.) > > > [1] http://launchpad.net/bugs/557023 > [2] I've written bug patterns for a couple of packages for this > [3] http://launchpad.net/bugs/696656 > [4] http://launchpadlibrarian.net/61549804/DpkgTerminalLog.txt > > Thanks,
Hi Brian, I often use full installations on USB keys. My original reason for doing this was because I was going to stores and looking at different hardware under Ubuntu to see what works. I was visiting friends and testing hardware compatability on their laptops. I was submitting checkbox results for machines so that they may feed the Hardware Database. Should this use case be supported? I would think so. Since the modules needed load when the appropriate hardware is detected I think it should be supported. I did a little research on additional drivers that don't come with/in the Linux kernel and posted them. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1329514 Note that I have had problems in the past with these keys. Once such problem occured after using a USB stick from a computer using NVIDIA video to a computer using INTEL video. Once gnome-session starts the background and gnome-panel items and letters were reversed upside-down. I would have thought that's X.org would autodetect hardware before setting up the video server. http://pad.lv/544813 There are two other issues that come to mind with this setup: (Regression) This was fixed and re-appeared. When selecting to install to a USB key in Ubiquity, the installer installs MBR to sda (usb key being sdb). http://pad.lv/549756 When ubiquity makes decisions on what it will install based on the hardware you are running the installer on (e.g. 4GB RAM + Net = PAE-enabled kernel) No bug reported for this. Detecting hardware in the installer seems like a new feature. I'm able to assist with testing and feedback should you require assistance with this important effort to support this use case. Cheers, -komputes (]( -. .- )[) -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
