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This bug hindered user wt newer AMD to use the Upgrade. It was mentioned
int the Release-Notes -so they would just endup with a black-screen. The
severity has to be judged as highly critical. The culpürit was in this
case AMD not beeing ready for the swift to GCC-5. This doesn't interest
a user in the 1st place. The publisher of software in general has a
responsibilty not to leave a user w/t a unfunctional system. A Standard
user will judge his HW borked & broken on Linux. So this does not even
hurt Ubuntu's-Image but the Image of the movement in a whole. This
happens over and over in the last years. And people are feed with this.

Options:

1. Delay release date until fix is tested and implemented.
2. Ubitquity the Installer has the option to add a comment not to tick "yes" when it comes to the questions - Do you want to install 3rd partie Drivers.

This is a pitfall beyond believe – and it makes people turn away. Pls
see also bug #1493888, reported on 9.9.2015

Hopefully this will lead to a blueprint for improvement?

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Title:
  fglrx should blacklist amdgpu

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  New
Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fglrx-installer-updates package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fglrx-installer source package in Wily:
  Fix Released
Status in fglrx-installer-updates source package in Wily:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  SRU Request:

  [Impact]

  The fglrx driver can't be loaded unless the amdgpu driver is
  blacklisted (as we already do with the radeon driver).

  [Test Case]
  1. Install fglrx on Ubuntu 15.10
  2. Reboot
  3. Check the output of the "lsmod | grep fglrx" command

  Expected results: the fglrx module should be loaded.

  Actual results:
  The kernel module can't be loaded because of the amdgpu driver.

  [Regression Potential]
  Low. We already blacklist the radeon driver; now that amdgpu is available in the kernel we should do the same.

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  The fglrx packages should blacklist amdgpu so that the said driver does not prevent fglrx from loading.

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