On 22/02/13 04:24, Scott Ritchie wrote: > I've been absolutely flooded with informal reports over a period of > several months now of 12.10 being still broken with regards to > proprietary drivers. > > Reports like this are typical, especially after the influx of steam users: > "Installed ubuntu + proprietary amd drivers, got no unity at 800x600 on > next reboot and uninstalled." > > The proximate cause is a combination of > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates/+bug/1068341 > and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1070427 > > > But more worrisome is that this appears to be something we still haven't > fixed for 12.10, even if the fix is a hackish ugly workaround such as > forcing the install of the headers-generic pacakge in the additional > drivers tool. > > > I'm not sure what the underlying fix should be, but it is making me > question if there's some sort of larger process issue here because we've > managed to drop this on the floor for so long. >
After a discussing the best approach with infinity and cyphermox, I worked around the issue in Raring first (in January) and opened the following bug report about Precise (it's in -proposed, waiting to be tested): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/1123107 I didn't know about the bug in ubiquity in 12.10, otherwise I would have backported the fix from Raring shortly after doing it in Precise. I have completed my tests on the backport for 12.10 today and I will upload the code tomorrow. Sorry it took so long. Cheers, -- Alberto Milone Software Engineer Hardware Enablement Team Professional and Engineering Services -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel