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

[Michael Gilbert]

forwarded 571036 http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757
thanks

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:39:13 -0500 Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:07:00 -0500 Don Pellegrino wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Michael Gilbert
> > <michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I think one work-around for this bug would be to make fglrx 10-1
> > available again so that current KDE users can downgrade.  I believe
> > downgrading in Debian would be simpler than trying to get the ATI
> > installer for the old version working properly.
> 
> it's possible, but it isn't really a good use of resources since
> neither 10-1 or 10-2 will actually make it to the release anyway.
> 
> > Is it possible to host both the 10-1 and 10-2 packages for sid in the
> > repository at the same time?  Alternatively is the 10-1 package build
> > accessible in some other way or would checking out the "10-1-1"tag
> > from the "pkg-fglrx" Subversion repository
> > [http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-fglrx/fglrx-driver/tags/10-1-1/?rev=368&sc=1#_fglrx-driver_tags_10-1-1_]
> > be the best way to go?
> 
> launchpad keeps a snapshot of all debian packages, which may be
> easiest, but it's also pretty straightforward to check out the
> packaging from svn and build it yourself.
> 
> as a suggestion, you may be able to make a larger impact with this
> issue if you file an upstream bug [0].

oops, looks like that's already been done.

mike