Le mercredi 24 mars 2010, vous avez écrit : > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 14:51:40 +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > severity 575226 minor > > retitle 575226 firmware-linux-nonfree 0.23 is in conflict with > > xserver-xorg- video-radeonhd and should suggest xserver-xorg-video-radeon > > thanks > > firmware-linux-nonfree has nothing to do with this.
I get your point. The real issue is having both firmware-linux-nonfree and radeonhd installed, as radeonhd will automatically call the firmware contained in firmware-linux- nonfree, which will result in a blank screen (not very user friendly). Maybe it is best if radeonhd driver include a conflict against firmware-linux- nonfree > 0.22, so the issue remains fully in the responsible hands of radeonhd people. I cannot say. Feel free to reassign back the bug to radeonhd in that case. I spent quite some time to find out exactly why it stopped working this morning (and since you get a blank screen with no way back to the console, you have to reboot at each failure), I'd just like to avoid other users to waste their time the same way. It does not matter to me whether it is achieved by adding a conflit in one package control file or another. > > I think it should be documented somewhere. And considering the results of > > running firmware-linux-nonfree with xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd (blank > > screen), maybe it would be nice to add a conflict against > > xserver-xorg-video- radeonhd and a suggest in favor of > > xserver-xorg-video-radeon. > > If nothing else, it will be documented in radeon's NEWS.Debian file > (http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-ati.git;a=blob > ;f=debian/xserver-xorg-video-radeon.NEWS), and probably in the release > notes for squeeze. That's good. It would make sense to also mention it in xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd or firmware-linux-nonfree, since it is unusual to look unused packages docs to find out solutions about the one we use (I mean, if you encounter the bug only when using radeonhd driver, you are likely to check NEWS and README for radeonhd and all the other pieces of software you rely on, instead of looking in the NEWS of the alternatives). Regards, -- Mathieu Roy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003241606.49...@bender.stalag13.ici
