Critical/highly severe bug in Gutsy, noone seems to notice

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:09:12PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 02:17:59PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> 
> > We're aware that this new version is far from perfect, but it fixes a
> > wide swath of issues and has better support for newer devices.  I'm
> > curious if with this new driver, if the installer will choose to use
> > this rather than the broken vesa driver for X??? cards.
> 
> It ought to for the X??? cards, but not the X???? ones - they're 
> entirely unsupported by the -ati driver. -avivo will drive some of them, 
> but we don't have a terribly good idea of which ones yet.

Btw, there is an -avivo 0.0.999+git20070805-1 update available in Debian
experimental, which might be more suitable than our current
0.0.1-0ubuntu3 driver, if we want to start encouraging users to try it
for X???? cards.  There is already a UVF entered for this:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-avivo/+bug/133647

Bryce