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[Ara Pulido <ara@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey there,

On 02/08/2010 06:48 PM, Coucouf wrote:
> 
> ----- DKT <dktcoding@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>> Hi there!
>>
>>> I also have one question.... the objective of these test is to confirm that
>>> the "proprietary" drivers work... but are they the drivers we download from
>>> www.ati.com/www.nvidia.com or do we need to test the ones that are suggested
>>> by ubuntu in the hardware manager ?
>>> Both fit the bill of being "proprietary" so i would like to be clear on that
>>> matter.
>>
>> It might be useful to test if the downloaded
>> and manually installed driver works correctly in a fresh Lucid
>> installation, specially considering there's quite a lot of people that
>> (for some odd reason) choose to install drivers manually.
>> We should wait for Ara's reply to see her opinion on this issue.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
> 
> I'm not sure we can nor really should test this use case.
> 1. For the latest 2 or 3 versions, Ubuntu had an AMD driver long before it was released to the public, and the versions released by AMD in between wouldn't work with the too new linux/X server in Ubuntu.
> 2. After an Ubuntu release, it's really up to AMD to make sure the driver packages they release work with it.

I agree. This project is to test the drivers we ship with Ubuntu. We
include the upgrade test from manual drivers, because we have to make
sure that the Ubuntu packages can be installed on top of the external
drivers.

So, when we talk about proprietary drivers, we are talking about the
ones we ship with Ubuntu, through the restricted repository.

Thanks,
Ara.

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Coucouf
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