[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#571036: Bug#571036: fglrx-driver: fglrx 10.2 incompatible with compositing in KDE 4.3

[Michael Gilbert]

severity 571036 important
thanks

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:03:55 -0500 Don Pellegrino wrote:
> The 10.2 release of the ATI Catalyst drivers (fglrx) are incompatible
> with compositing in KDE 4.3 as discussed on Phoronix at
> [http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22057#post112989].
> It has been reported that upgrading to KDE 4.4 resolves the issue
> [http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showpost.php?p=113029&postcount=13]
> however KDE 4.4 is not to be expected in Debian until after the 4.4.1
> release scheduled for March 2, 2010 as per the channel topic in
> #debian-kde on irc.debian.org.  Therefore it would be useful to
> current KDE users to have fglrx 10.1 remain in the package repository
> as an option.

i don't think lack of compositing is severe enough to be considered
release critical. its annoying yes, but as long as standard rendering
still works, then it can be worked around.

the release version of this package will have to be newer than 10-2
anyway since neither this nor any previous version support xorg 7.5.

mike