with the new kernel update to 2-6-27-10 I could recompile the proprietary driver 8.11 supplied by ATI ; with this method as sonn as an update of kernel is activated we loose functionability of previous driver compilation (see bug report #237216) ; in their driver installer package they ptopose either to install drivers directly rhough a combined existing kernel compilation or to build package ; I have not tried the latter alternative but I am not sure it would bring coherency with new kernel update ? ; really lisibility of this window is very confusing : - on top a line saying that proprietary driver is installed :I wish I could read the version of driver as installed manually by myself ! - a lin that for me does not make sense : on ebutton (can it be checked ?iunder some particular conditions ) + one comment line saying that a different version of driver is installed (different than what ?) + a button "Activate" (I wonder wether if the correct translation is not "Activé " meaning "Activated" but then why make it anyways selectable for obsure action because as far as I know it is working as is so no need to click on this tricky latter button ! Regards.
By the way some last important points that I want to address here : (a) posix shared memory In a technical note linked to ATI driver installation they say that posix shared memory (/dev/shm) must be activated ; I have added in fsab file the following line : # posix shared memory tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 2 questions : why is not such line added in fstab even when using ubuntu fglrx package p? After doing so /dev/shm directory is still empty ! (b) manual installation of proprietary driver After manual installation of proprietary driver I still have xorg-driver-fglrx + fglrx-amdccle packages appearing as installed which for me does not make sense as if not mistaken I had removed them before manually installing the proprietary driver (in ubuntu list they say that all *fglrx* packages MUST BE REOVED prior to installing proprietary driver) ; I wonder if when updating kernel from 2-6-27-8 to 2-6-27-10 those packages have not been re-installed at the time because felt as needed ? ; can I now safely remove them ? ; what about vga and vesa packages is it safer to keep them in case ; are they necessary during the boot process before final activation of proprietary driver ? (c) is it possible to plan in the near future a ubuntu package of ATI driver (with their authorization ) that would be sytematically activated in case of installation of new kernel to anticipate for non installation of new kernel when combined installtion of proprietary driver fails to terminate successfully to avoid a black screen at the next reboot ? Regards. ** Attachment added: "snapshot of harware driver window" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20017797/hardware%20driver%20window.png -- "Proprietary Drivers" shows incorrect version if installed fglrx manually https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291672 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
