Jockey doesn't offer fglrx

That's because the proprietary driver does not support the xserver in intrepid, so there's no point in offering a driver which would result in a broken system.

This is because jockey doesn't depend on fglrx-installer yet. This is intentional because there is no fglrx support yet for 8.10.

When the fglrx is ready for xorg 1.5, there are three tasks needed here. I'll open up a task against each source package:
1) Add fglrx-modaliases as a dependency for jockey
2) Move fglrx-installer into restricted (it's in multiverse right now)
3) Add xorg-driver-fglrx to the DVD ship seed near where nvidia-glx-* is.

I tried to install the driver right off the ATI website, but ran into two issues so far.

If you run the actual ati*.run file, you'll get:

rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop$ sudo ./ati*.run
Created directory fglrx-install.O16780
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.532...............................
==================================================
 ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================

Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.27-7-generic; make sure that the version is being
correctly set by --iscurrentdistro

--iscurrentdistro doesn't affect the setup in any fashion, so I did
./ati-driver-installer-8-9-x86.x86_64.run --extract
and played around with the scripts but still no go.

I don't get why people say the xorg version isn't supported... when you extract the file from ATI you clearly see this in the packages:
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages$ ls
ATI Debian Fedora Mandriva RedFlag RedHat Slackware SuSE Ubuntu
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages$ cd Ubuntu
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu$ ls
ati-packager.sh ChangeLog dists
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu$ cd dists
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu/dists$ ls
7.10 8.04 8.10 gutsy hardy intrepid source
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu/dists$ cd intrepid
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu/dists/intrepid$ ls
10fglrx.in compat fglrx-kernel-source.install.in overrides xorg-driver-fglrx.default xorg-driver-fglrx.links
acpi control fglrx-kernel-source.postinst README.Debian xorg-driver-fglrx-dev.install.in xorg-driver-fglrx.manpages
amdcccle.desktop copyright fglrx-kernel-source.prerm replacements xorg-driver-fglrx-dev.links xorg-driver-fglrx.postinst
amdcccle.kdelnk dkms.conf.in fglrx-modaliases.install rules xorg-driver-fglrx.dirs xorg-driver-fglrx.postrm
changelog.in fglrx-amdcccle.install.in modaliases xorg-driver-fglrx.atieventsd.init xorg-driver-fglrx.install.in xorg-driver-fglrx.preinst
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu/dists/intrepid$ cd ..
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu/dists$ cd 8.10
rjr162@rjr162-laptop:~/Desktop/test/packages/Ubuntu/dists/8.10$ ls
10fglrx.in compat fglrx-kernel-source.install.in overrides xorg-driver-fglrx.default xorg-driver-fglrx.links
acpi control fglrx-kernel-source.postinst README.Debian xorg-driver-fglrx-dev.install.in xorg-driver-fglrx.manpages
amdcccle.desktop copyright fglrx-kernel-source.prerm replacements xorg-driver-fglrx-dev.links xorg-driver-fglrx.postinst
amdcccle.kdelnk dkms.conf.in fglrx-mod...

For the record, current intrepid jockey explicitly disables fglrx, since it is doomed to fail, and update-manager transitions user to ati on upgrade.

As soon as we get a fixed fglrx driver from AMD and SRU it to intprepid, we should remove the jockey ban of fglrx along with it.

fglrx-installer was just fixed, see bug 247376.

So I can go ahead with adding recommends to the fglrx modaliases and re-enable the handler again.

This bug was fixed in the package jockey - 0.5~beta2-0ubuntu2

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jockey (0.5~beta2-0ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge bug fixes from trunk:
    - openprinting.org detected handlers: Add supplier and support contacts to
      long description. (LP: #269454)
    - backend.py, set_enabled(): Report progress signals early when handling
      packages, to avoid delays until package manager sends out the first
      progress. (LP: #279073)
  * data/handlers/fglrx.py: Enable driver again, current version works now.
    Also add "Recommends: fglrx-modaliases", so that detection works in a
    default installation. (LP: #262819)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:10:53 +0200

Unfortunately the DVD seed part is more tricky. fglrx-installer is still in multiverse and not in restricted because it build-depends on libstdc++5. gcc-3.3 is not in main any more (and that's a good thing!). So unless we can drop the build dep, it needs to stay in multiverse.

I am confirming this since it is waiting on the dvd decision to be completed. See comment #9.

The DVD seed part was resolved this morning and will be visible in DVDs after today.

nvidia-common depends on jockey-common. I don't understand why it only recommends fglrx-modaliases if nvidia counterparts is installed by default.

jockey should deppend on fglrx-modaliases

Eduardo, nvidia-common has no relation to jockey-common at all. jockey-common merely recommends nvidia-common, just like fglrx-modaliases.

A strict dependency is too much, since it should be possible to install Ubuntu without non-free drivers, and jockey doesn't depend on fglrx/nvidia at all. The latter just provide drivers which jockey can handle.