Public bug reported:
TL;DR: Double-check the indexing of radio buttons in the Additional
Drivers dialog and how they correspond to installation actions, because
there's something fishy going on.
I have a Radeon HD 6870, and on a fresh 13.04 install I wanted to
install proprietary drivers for it. Found the "Additional Drivers" tab
and had three choices which were, in order: xserver-xorg-video-ati,
fglrx-updates, and fglrx. I selected fglrx-updates, hit "Apply Changes",
and afterward confirmed with apt that it was installed. I rebooted, and
all was fine.
Later the same day, I wanted to revert to xserver-xorg-video-ati. I go
into the dialog, select it, Apply Changes, and am decidedly unhappy to
learn from apt that now fglrx-updates has been removed and replaced with
fglrx instead of xserver-xorg-video-ati. The dialog still assured me
that this was not the case. Seeing as fglrx was not installed, I told
the dialog to install it. Afterwards, apt said fglrx-updates was
installed again! So I told the dialog to install fglrx-updates, and
finally both versions of fglrx are uninstalled and replaced by xserver-
xorg-video-ati. At this point, the Additional Drivers dialog still happy
thinks that fglrx-updates is installed.
After a reboot, Additional Drivers agrees with apt that xserver-xorg-
video-ati is what is installed.
** Affects: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Additional Driver choices don't always correspond correctly to
installation actions
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