Ubuntu
fglrx-installer package

Ensure fglrx package work in future for PAE kernel installs

Bug #567690 reported by Jerone Young on 2010-04-21

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	fglrx-installer (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Today when someone installs from an ubuntu DVD. It so happens that when the PAE kernel is install it keeps kernel-headers package, but it erases the kernel-headers-generic package & replaces it with the kernel-headers-generic-pae.

This is mainly a fix to the debian/control file. But baiscally need to add kernel-headers-generic-pae into the control file. But since kernel-headers is kept around .. it just happens to work. This is to ensure it is spelled out to be in the file.

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Jerone Young (jerone) wrote on 2010-04-21:

fglrx_debian_control_pae_ensure.patch Edit (654 bytes, text/x-diff)

Jerone Young (jerone) on 2010-04-21

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote on 2010-04-21:

There are N flavours of kernel headers available, and adding one more won't help. The "linux-headers" virtual package is satisfied by the headers for each linux flavour. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that the linux headers for the running kernel (or the expected-to-be-running-kernel) are available at install time.

If this is a bug, the bug is in *all* DKMS-using packages in that they ought detect whether the running kernel matches the available kernel headers, and if not, warn the user and offer to install matching kernel headers.

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2010-05-06:

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Hi Jerone,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

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Changed in fglrx-installer (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete
tags:	added: needs-retested-on-lucid-by-june

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Jerone Young (jerone) wrote on 2010-05-06:

Hey Bryce,
This is not an issue. My main point on this was to explicitly have the pae headers specified. But since it looks for linux-headers .. it just happens to work. There was another bug I had with this, and the decision was to stick with just depending on linux-headers.