please review updated templates for fglrx-driver [non-free]
Hi,
with the package fglrx-legacy-driver becoming available (currently only
in experimental, but we will provide it in wheezy-backports once that
opens), we need to rephrase the instructions in fglrx-driver.
This is the new template (which is displayed from preinst if some
legacy hardware was found):
Template: fglrx-driver/install-even-if-unsupported-gpu-exists
Type: boolean
Default: false
#flag:translate!:3
_Description: Install Fglrx driver despite unsupported graphics card?
The following graphics chipset found in your system is no longer handled
by the Fglrx driver (package fglrx-driver):
.
${unsupported-device}
.
The above card requires either the non-free legacy Fglrx driver
(package fglrx-legacy-driver) or the free Radeon driver
(package xserver-xorg-video-radeon).
.
The fglrx-legacy-driver package will be provided in wheezy-backports.
.
Before the Radeon driver can be used you must
remove Fglrx configuration from xorg.conf (and xorg.conf.d/).
.
Note that switching to the free Radeon driver requires the
fglrx-driver package to be purged (not just removed).
.
You may wish to keep fglrx-driver (for instance to drive some other card),
but the above card won't be usable.
This is getting a bit long due to the many paragraphs - is there a
possibility to have the sentences to be translated individually without
putting them in separate paragraphs?
This sentence separation is needed as I want to enable/disable certain
parts in future uploads (targeting experimental or wheezy+1) without
messing up all the translations. E.g. there are changes already in
experimental that obsolete the "needs to be purged" part (but I doubt
the release team will consider them for wheezy) and jessie won't need
information about stuff in wheezy-backports.
For your information, the package will also carry this NEWS entry:
fglrx-driver (1:12-6+point-2) unstable; urgency=low
Starting with the Catalyst 12.6 release, AMD/ATI has moved the support for
R6XX/R7XX based GPUs to a legacy driver.
This includes any RadeonHD older than 5xxx,
e.g. RadeonHD 2000
RadeonHD 3000
RadeonHD 4000
These graphics adapters are only supported by the fglrx-legacy-driver
package (which is currently only available in experimental and will be
made available via wheezy-backports), or the free Radeon driver
(xserver-xorg-video-radeon).
Before the Radeon driver can be used you must
remove Fglrx configuration from xorg.conf (and xorg.conf.d/).
Note that switching to the free Radeon driver requires the
fglrx-driver package to be purged (not just removed).
Andreas
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