[Bug 941172] Re: do-release-update to Precise produces a hardware-not-support-in-Natty warning

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 23:11:41 -0000, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> But here's a brain dump of what I know.  This is going to be way too
> blathery for just dropping into that error message, but maybe someone
> can massage a usable text out of it.

Thanks for this info-dump...


> Since Lucid there has been a fair amount of work upstream to solve
> issues and provide more stable support for 8xx.  However a lot of

Apologies for having to start at the begining... but when you say
"upstream" in this context, are you talking about an X.org video driver,
Linux kernel modules, a combo of those two, or something else?


> So, Ubuntu might boot and run on your 8xx system just fine, but Ubuntu
> engineers are not actively *supporting* that chipset in terms of
> development work so if it does not work there won't be fixes from us.
> You'll need to work directly with upstream at Intel to get development
> support.

It it really a question of _booting_ (i.e. to a text-mode console), or
only an issue if we are trying to run X?  (Or do these warnings apply
to framebuffer drivers of some sort?)

Thanks again.
						Nathan

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Title:
  do-release-update to Precise produces a hardware-not-support-in-Natty
  warning

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “update-manager” source package in Precise:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I ran "do-release-update -d" on a Lucid system to upgrade to Precise
  (which downloaded and ran version 0.156.6 of precise.tar.gz).

  As part of the pre-upgrade checking process, I got the following
  message:

    Your graphics hardware may not be fully supported in Ubuntu 11.04.

    The support in Ubuntu 11.04 for your intel graphics hardware is 
    limited and you may encounter problems after the upgrade. Do you want 
    to continue with the upgrade?

  Does this warning still apply to Precise?

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