On Mar 01, 2012, at 02:59 PM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: >Could the warning message be something along these lines? > >----- >Your graphics hardware is no longer fully supported by the Ubuntu project. > >Your computer contains a video graphics controller that uses an Intel >i8xx chipset. As of Ubuntu 10.10 (Natty), these chipsets are considered >obsolete and no longer receive testing or bugfix support. As a result, >even if you currently have a working configuration, you may encounter >problems running X.org after upgrading Ubuntu. > >For more information see > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/UpdateManageri8xxWarning > >(If you do not plan to run X.org on this machine, it should be safe to >proceed with the upgrade.) > >Do you want to continue with the upgrade? >-----
That's pretty good, though I may tweak it a bit. I'm not sure about what kind of formatting is available in this string, but I'll look into it. I do suspect that at this point in the release cycle we'll need to get a UI freeze exception for this change. Let's get the code looking good and then follow on with that process. >(Is it possible to put line/paragraph breaks into the "msg", as I have >done here?) > > >Also, I was wondering if it made sense to rename the Wiki page to include >"i8xx" in the name, to leave open the possibility of adding other warnings to >Update Manager in the future (as shown in the URL in my sample text). Good idea. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/UpdateManagerWarningForI8xx -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/941172 Title: do-release-update to Precise produces a hardware-not-support-in-Natty warning To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/941172/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
