[Bug 223199] Re: fglrx does not load

[Martin Stolle]

Ok, now I feel slightly stupid.  Turns out, before hardy heron, I had to
use the ATI supplied driver, since the Ubuntu fglrx driver was too old
for my gfx card.  So I had disabled the fglrx driver in   /etc/default
/linux-restricted-modules

So there is still a (somewhat lesser) bug in that a new install of the
linux-restricted-modules package will enable the fglrx (or presumably
any) driver, even if it is blacklisted in the config file.

I think the package should check upon install the blacklist settings and
not make modules available that will magically disappear after a reboot.
Instead, it should print out a message: "disabling module XXX" and not
set it up with the kernel.  That would make debugging a whole lot easier
and it would make the behavior more consistent (ie. no more disappearing
modules after a reboot).

Thanks,
  Martin

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fglrx does not load
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