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** Changed in: fglrx-installer-updates (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Hybrid Graphics and general enablement for fglrx and nvidia in Precise
  for 12.04.3

Status in fglrx-installer-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fglrx-pxpress package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in jockey package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-319 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-prime package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fglrx-installer-updates source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in fglrx-pxpress source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in jockey source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-319 source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-prime source package in Precise:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  SRU request:

  As per the topic, the purpose of this report is to make sure that
  users get graphics drivers that work with Raring's X/Kernel in Precise
  12.04.3.

  This work also enables support for Hybrid graphics (as planned) and
  requires changes in Jockey in addition to the drivers.

  This SRU involves the following packages

  jockey
  nvidia-prime
  fglrx-pxpress
  nvidia-graphics-drivers-319
  nvidia-graphics-drivers-319-updates
  nvidia-graphics-drivers-304
  nvidia-graphics-drivers-304-updates
  nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates
  nvidia-settings-319
  nvidia-settings-319-updates
  nvidia-settings-304
  nvidia-settings-304-updates
  nvidia-persistenced
  fglrx-installer-updates
  fglrx-installer-experimental-13

  
  Only jockey, nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates and fglrx-installer-updates already existed in the archive, the rest is in NEW.

  The changes in jockey are all documented in jockey's changelog. I
  added tests in the test suite to make sure that we simulate hybrid
  graphics systems (using fake devices) and test the relevant code
  paths.

  In short, we don't provide graphics drivers on unsupported systems
  with hybrid graphics, thus preventing users from breaking their
  systems. When hybrid graphics is available and supported (i.e. there
  is a driver which supports it and the Raring stack is installed) not
  only do we provide the drivers, we also take care of installing either
  fglrx-pxpress or nvidia-prime, which will take care of any required
  configuration so that, on next boot, things will work with no user
  interaction. Quite an improvement compared with a certain xserver
  failure in case of a misconfigured or unsupported system.

  As for the drivers, they all work with kernels up to 3.10 and include the following features:
   * NVIDIA's 319 series add support for hybrid graphics, in addition to being a LTS series. They also replace any experimental driver we uploaded.
   * current users of nvidia-current and nvidia-current-updates will be migrated to nvidia-304 and nvidia-304-updates (same driver release, only different name).
   * All (obsolete) experimental nvidia drivers will be migrated to nvidia-319-updates.
   * fglrx-updates will be updated to the latest stable release.
   * fglrx-experimental-13 will replace all experimental releases and add stable support for hybrid graphics.
   * nvidia-persistenced is a daemon (only for the 319 series) which, by default, preserves the standard behaviour of the nvidia driver. It makes it easier for users to enable persistence mode to work around bugs in the driver (e.g. LP: #1202152)

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