[Pkg-fglrx-devel] r795 - in fglrx-driver/trunk/debian: . module

Thu Sep 15 12:07:28 UTC 2011

Author: anbe-guest
Date: 2011-09-15 12:07:28 +0000 (Thu, 15 Sep 2011)
New Revision: 795

Modified:
   fglrx-driver/trunk/debian/changelog
   fglrx-driver/trunk/debian/control
   fglrx-driver/trunk/debian/module/control.template
Log:
Rephrase and synchronize the descriptions.

Modified: fglrx-driver/trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================

--- fglrx-driver/trunk/debian/changelog	2011-09-15 10:44:22 UTC (rev 794)
+++ fglrx-driver/trunk/debian/changelog	2011-09-15 12:07:28 UTC (rev 795)
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   * Move libXvBAW.so.1, libAMDXvBA.so.1, libAMDXvBA.cap to new package
     libxvbaw1 which depends on libgl1-fglrx-glx.
   * Add explicit Depends: xserver-xorg-core.
+  * Rephrase and synchronize the descriptions.
 
  -- Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de>  Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:16:37 +0200
 

Modified: fglrx-driver/trunk/debian/control
===================================================================
--- fglrx-driver/trunk/debian/control	2011-09-15 10:44:22 UTC (rev 794)
+++ fglrx-driver/trunk/debian/control	2011-09-15 12:07:28 UTC (rev 795)
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
  ${shlibs:Depends},
  libfglrx (= ${binary:Version}),
  xorg-video-abi-10 | xorg-video-abi-8 | xorg-video-abi-6.0,
- xserver-xorg-video (<< 2:1.10.99),
+ xserver-xorg-core (<< 2:1.10.99),
  glx-alternative-fglrx (>= 0.1.92),
 Recommends:
  fglrx-modules-dkms (= ${binary:Version}) | fglrx-kernel-${fglrx:version},
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@
 Replaces:
  fglrx-glx (<< 1:11-7-4),
 Description: non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver
- Display driver for the ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards.
+ FGLRX / AMD Catalyst is the non-free proprietary display driver for the
+ ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards. As an alternative, you may try
+ the newest free driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
  .
  This package provides display drivers and hardware accelerated OpenGL
  for X.Org. For 3D acceleration to work, you will need to
@@ -69,9 +71,6 @@
  The driver can work with plain mesa libGL, but some applications may require
  the proprietary libGL. This library is shipped in the libgl1-fglrx-glx package.
  .
- This driver is not free. As an alternative, you may try the newest free
- driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
- .
  This driver will replace parts of your X11 and Mesa system.
 
 Package: libfglrx
@@ -92,12 +91,12 @@
 Replaces:
  fglrx-driver (<< 1:11-8-2),
 Description: non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver (runtime libraries)
- Display driver for the ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards.
+ FGLRX / AMD Catalyst is the non-free proprietary display driver for the
+ ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards. As an alternative, you may try
+ the newest free driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
  .
  This package contains the runtime libraries.
- .
- This driver is not free. As an alternative, you may try the newest free
- driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
+ The proprietary libGL library is shipped in the libgl1-fglrx-glx package.
 
 Package: libxvbaw1
 Section: non-free/libs
@@ -116,10 +115,14 @@
  fglrx-driver (<< 1:11-8-3~),
  libfglrx (<< 1:11-8-3~),
 Description: AMD XvBA (X-Video Bitstream Acceleration) runtime libraries
- X-Video Bitstream Acceleration (XvBA) is an arbitrary extension of the
- X video extension (Xv) for the X Window System on Linux
- operating-systems. XvBA API allows video programs to offload portions of the
- video decoding process to the GPU video-hardware.
+ X-Video Bitstream Acceleration (XvBA), designed by AMD for its (ATI) Radeon GPU
+ and Fusion APU, is an arbitrary extension of the X video extension (Xv) for the
+ X Window System on Linux operating-systems. XvBA API allows video programs to
+ offload portions of the video decoding process to the GPU video-hardware.
+ Currently, the portions designed to be offloaded by XvBA onto the GPU are
+ motion compensation (MC) and inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT), and
+ variable-length decoding (VLD) for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) and VC-1 encoded
+ video.
  .
  This package contains the runtime libraries.
 
@@ -134,10 +137,14 @@
 Replaces:
  fglrx-driver (<< 1:11-8-2),
 Description: AMD XvBA (X-Video Bitstream Acceleration) development files
- X-Video Bitstream Acceleration (XvBA) is an arbitrary extension of the
- X video extension (Xv) for the X Window System on Linux
- operating-systems. XvBA API allows video programs to offload portions of the
- video decoding process to the GPU video-hardware.
+ X-Video Bitstream Acceleration (XvBA), designed by AMD for its (ATI) Radeon GPU
+ and Fusion APU, is an arbitrary extension of the X video extension (Xv) for the
+ X Window System on Linux operating-systems. XvBA API allows video programs to
+ offload portions of the video decoding process to the GPU video-hardware.
+ Currently, the portions designed to be offloaded by XvBA onto the GPU are
+ motion compensation (MC) and inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT), and
+ variable-length decoding (VLD) for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) and VC-1 encoded
+ video.
  .
  This package contains the development files.
 
@@ -160,12 +167,11 @@
 Replaces:
  fglrx-glx (<< 1:11-8-2),
 Description: proprietary libGL for the non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver
- Display driver for the ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards.
+ FGLRX / AMD Catalyst is the non-free proprietary display driver for the
+ ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards. As an alternative, you may try
+ the newest free driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
  .
  This package provides the proprietary libGL shipped by ATI/AMD.
- .
- This driver is not free. As an alternative, you may try the newest free
- driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
 
 Package: fglrx-glx
 Section: non-free/oldlibs
@@ -189,14 +195,13 @@
 Conflicts:
  nvidia-glx-ia32,
  ia32-fglrx-glx,
-Description: proprietary libGL for the non-free ATI/AMD display driver (ia32 libs)
- Display driver for the ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards.
+Description: proprietary libGL for the non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver (32-bit)
+ FGLRX / AMD Catalyst is the non-free proprietary display driver for the
+ ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards. As an alternative, you may try
+ the newest free driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
  .
- This package provides the proprietary 32 bit libGL shipped by ATI/AMD for
+ This package provides the proprietary 32-bit libGL shipped by ATI/AMD for
  emulated userspace on amd64.
- .
- This driver is not free. As an alternative, you may try the newest free
- driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
 
 Package: libfglrx-ia32
 Section: non-free/libs
@@ -211,12 +216,12 @@
 Replaces:
  fglrx-glx-ia32 (<< 1:11-8-2),
 Description: non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver (32-bit runtime libraries)
- Display driver for the ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards.
+ FGLRX / AMD Catalyst is the non-free proprietary display driver for the
+ ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards. As an alternative, you may try
+ the newest free driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
  .
  This package contains the 32-bit runtime libraries.
- .
- This driver is not free. As an alternative, you may try the newest free
- driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
+ The proprietary libGL library is shipped in the fglrx-glx-ia32 package.
 
 Package: fglrx-modules-dkms
 Section: non-free/kernel
@@ -231,6 +236,10 @@
 Breaks:
  make (= 3.82-1),
 Description: dkms module source for the non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver
+ FGLRX / AMD Catalyst is the non-free proprietary display driver for the
+ ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards. As an alternative, you may try
+ the newest free driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
+ .
  This package provides the kernel build environment and the fglrx modules,
  which are necessary to have accelerated 3D support within the ATI/AMD
  proprietary display driver.
@@ -255,9 +264,16 @@
 Breaks:
  make (= 3.82-1),
 Description: kernel module source for the non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver
+ FGLRX / AMD Catalyst is the non-free proprietary display driver for the
+ ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards. As an alternative, you may try
+ the newest free driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
+ .
  This package provides the kernel build environment and the fglrx modules,
  which are necessary to have accelerated 3D support within the ATI/AMD
  proprietary display driver.
+ .
+ This package contains the source for the fglrx kernel module for use with 
+ module-assistant or make-kpkg or other manual build methods.
 
 Package: fglrx-control
 Architecture: i386 amd64
@@ -296,7 +312,9 @@
 Replaces:
  fglrx-driver (<< 1:8-4-2),
 Description: external events daemon for the non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver
- Display driver for the ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards.
+ FGLRX / AMD Catalyst is the non-free proprietary display driver for the
+ ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards. As an alternative, you may try
+ the newest free driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
  .
  The ATI External Events Daemon atieventsd is a user-level application
  that monitors various system events such as ACPI or hotplug, then

Modified: fglrx-driver/trunk/debian/module/control.template
===================================================================
--- fglrx-driver/trunk/debian/module/control.template	2011-09-15 10:44:22 UTC (rev 794)
+++ fglrx-driver/trunk/debian/module/control.template	2011-09-15 12:07:28 UTC (rev 795)
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
 Recommends: linux-image-#KVERS#
 Provides: fglrx-kernel-${fglrx:version}
 Description: FGLRX binary kernel module for Linux #KVERS#
- FGLRX is the non-free binary video driver for the ATI/AMD RadeonHD and
- FireGL graphics cards. As an alternative, you may try the newest free
- driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
+ FGLRX / AMD Catalyst is the non-free proprietary display driver for the
+ ATI/AMD RadeonHD and FireGL graphics cards. As an alternative, you may try
+ the newest free driver xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
  .
  This package provides the non-free FGLRX binary kernel module built for
  the Debian Linux kernel package. This kernel module is necessary to have


