Comment 4 for bug 609938

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Fsolda (fsolda-gmail) wrote : Re: [Bug 609938] Re: fglrx fails build on 2.6.35-10-generic

Do you know if will be there a new version of this driver in the final
version of Ubuntu Maverick?

Em Qua, 2010-09-15 às 21:59 +0000, Felix Kuehling escreveu:
> This happens every time Ubuntu updates their kernel and/or Xorg version
> and leaves the old fglrx driver in place that was never designed to work
> with those new X.org and kernel versions.
>
> Maybe one way to save users this kind of trouble in the future would be
> to add versioned dependencies to fglrx to make it conflict with kernel
> or X.org versions newer than what was in the last stable Ubuntu release.
> This way, if a user explicitly or implicitly updates their X.org or
> kernel to a new major version, they'd be forced to uninstall fglrx
> first.
>