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(Get the code!)
>Is it a good idea to file a bug for the below seperately?
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>" 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.
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>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.
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>Not being a dev, I don't how easy or possible this is, but is would save a lot of broken upgrades. "
I did wonder about this, but on the beta page it says:
"Upgrading a desktop system using an ATI video chipset with the fglrx binary-only driver may result in a warning that the driver needs to be replaced. There is a bug in the driver replacement logic, so if you see this prompt, please cancel the upgrade until this is fixed, which will happen immediately after the beta release. "
so I wondered if this was what it was referring to and they had it covered?