[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#534183: fglrx-driver: tell users that fglrx replace some parts of the window system

[Xavier Brochard]

Package: fglrx-driver
Severity: wishlist

Hello
Users are usually not aware of fglrx replacing some parts of the XWindow system.
I suggest to add something in the description about that. This will have 2 benefits:
Users will know it _before_ installing.
When they'll encounter a bug (XWindow not starting for example), they'll discover more easily that it is not enough to change the driver (ati or vesa instead of fglrx) but they must also remove fglrx (yes, it is a real case :-).

regards
Xavier

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable-i386
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-i386'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-i386')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages fglrx-driver depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.26     Debian configuration management sy
ii  laptop-detect                 0.13.7     attempt to detect a laptop
ii  libc6                         2.9-16     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdrm2                       2.4.11-1   Userspace interface to kernel DRM 
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.0-6  GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      7.4.1-1    A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.1-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      2:1.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxinerama1                  2:1.0.3-2  X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2                    2:1.3.0-2  X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.4-2  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  xserver-xorg                  1:7.4+3    the X.Org X server

Versions of packages fglrx-driver recommends:
pn  fglrx-atieventsd              <none>     (no description available)
pn  fglrx-glx                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  fglrx-glx-ia32                <none>     (no description available)
pn  fglrx-modules | fglrx-source  <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages fglrx-driver suggests:
pn  fglrx-control                 <none>     (no description available)