Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] please review updated templates for fglrx-driver [non-free]
On 2012-09-16 12:38, Justin B Rye wrote:
> Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> 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).
> What's the point of separating the "Before" and "Note" paragraphs?
> Aren't they in fact saying two parts of the same thing?
The "Before" will stay (undoing a manual configuration of X), while the
"Note" part (getting rid of a modprobe blacklist conffile) has been
solved in experimental in a way no longer requiring explicitly purging
some package. And in case I manage to convince the release team to
accept these changes into wheezy, I'd just have to drop one sentence
without requiring retranslation.
> I suppose in principle you also could merge the last paragraph into
> the first, since they're both "invariable".
ACK.
> This system has a graphics card which is no longer handled by the Fglrx
> driver (package fglrx-driver). You may wish to keep the package
> installed - for instance to drive some other card - but the card with the
> following chipset won't be usable:
> .
> ${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.
> .
> Note that before the free Radeon driver can be used, the
> fglrx-driver package to be purged (not just removed), and all
> Fglrx configuration removed from xorg.conf (and xorg.conf.d/).
>
> Hang on, I've been here before:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2012/06/msg00062.html
Yes, I should have included a pointer ...
> But once we're talking about Jessie, how would anybody get into the
> position of reading this as news? Wouldn't they necessarily already
> have gone through the transition away from fglrx-driver unless they're
> skipping a release (which isn't supported anyway)? Or, I suppose,
> keeping a spare card labelled "known good with fglrx-driver".
The "transition" part is only interesting for squeeze->wheezy upgrades,
afterwards (wheezy, jessie, wheezy->jessie) it's only about new
installations where the user may choose the wrong package and we give
him a hint (in preinst) that he wanted something different (and may
easily abort the installation at the preinst stage).
Andreas
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