Public bug reported:
I am running the Ubuntu 7.04 beta. In the System->Administration menu
you have the Restricted drivers manager. I opened this and saw a check
box to automatically enable the proprietary ATI driver. I checked it
and allowed it to enable, then rebooted. This time when it booted, it
ended locked up with a black screen (I couldn't even ctrl-alt-f1 to a
command line). I had to boot to command line and change my xorg.conf
back to the opensource ati driver to get it to work again. I assume
this problem is because the newest fglrx driver doesn't work with kernel
2.6.20 without a patch. So I suggest that you either completely
automate the whole process including all needed patches and
configuration, or you don't do it at all, so we can at least know what
we're doing manually. Someone who doesn't know any better will use this
feature and end up with an unusable computer.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 30 09:18:54 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux DeepThought 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007
i686 GNU/Linux
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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problem with restricted drivers manager in feisty beta
https://launchpad.net/bugs/99003
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