[Pkg-fglrx-devel] fglrx installation on SteamOS with a legacy chip installed in the system

[Wouter Wijsman]

Hello Fglrx packaging team, 

As you might be aware, Valve makes use of your packages for installing Fglrx on SteamOS. I think this is great and I thank you guys for the work you do on these packages. I found an issue when installing SteamOS on a system with a legacy AMD chip in it though, even when it's not the main gpu in the system, of which I am not sure if it's a bug or not. The issue is that SteamOS always installs fglrx during the initial installation of the system and in this particular scenario the libfglrx package tries to ask the user if he/she is sure about installing it. The Debian installer, which SteamOS uses, is not able to cope with this and waits for the package to finish installing without prompting anything until it times out. This has made me unable to install SteamOS on one of my systems, even though my primary GPU is supported by SteamOS. Valve does not see this as a bug since legacy AMD gpus are unsupported.

I was wondering if you guys see this as a problem or if it's an unsupported use-case. 

I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this or if it's an inappropriate question. I'm in no way associated with Valve, I'm just some guy who is very interested in new tech.

Thanks for reading this lengthy email anyway.

Wouter Wijsman
wwijsman at live.nl
 		 	   		  
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