Comment 90 for bug 313027
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| Martijn_Hoekstra (martijnhoekstra) wrote | #90 |
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(Get the code!)
Is it a good idea to file a bug for the below seperately?
" I knew that my card was no longer supported by fglrx in 9.04. However, I went ahead and tried to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04a6 anyway to see what would happen (it was not on my main computer). The installer correctly identified that my card was not supported by the new fglrx driver. I assumed (incorrectly!) that it would therefore disable the fglrx driver whilst doing the upgrade and went ahead. This left me with an unbootable computer (in graphics mode) until I ran some command line voodoo.
Can I suggest that as a minimum that if the installer detects an unsupported card and fglrx is being used, it refuses to go ahead with the upgrade until the user has switched back to the ati driver. Preferably the installer would do this.
Not being a dev, I don't how easy or possible this is, but is would save a lot of broken upgrades. "