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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 258038 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258038

Yeah, the X driver system in debian/ubuntu for proprietary drivers was
designed with an assumption that the system has just one video device.
So it did not cope well with swapping to other drivers or changing
hardware out from underneath or whatnot.

This has become particularly a problem on the newer hybrid computers
that include multiple graphics cards and hardware or bios toggles to
swap between them, but it's a deep design issue that requires
rearchitecting the whole system in order to fix.

For Lucid we have undertaken this rearchitecture work.  It is difficult
and fairly risky that we might end up just breaking things in other
different ways but if we can make it work then hopefully it will solve
this whole problem.

Anyway, since i think that rework will address this request, I'll dupe
this to the master bug for that work.  Your help doing thorough testing
of this in Lucid would be valuable.  See
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Testing/ for a link to the proprietary drivers
testing checklist.

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 258038
   Look into feasibility of using an alternatives system rather than diversions

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boot fails after changing graphics card
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