Bug 2452

Summary: Push fglxr-8.881-1 as an update for mageia 1
Product: Mageia Reporter: Yann Ciret <mageia>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: davidwhodgins, dmorganec, fundawang, mageia, stormi-mageia, sysadmin-bugs
Version: 1Keywords: validated_update
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://blogs.amd.com/play/2011/08/05/the-amd-catalyst%E2%84%A2-11-7-driver-and-11-8-preview-driver-%E2%80%93-what%E2%80%99s-new/
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: fglrx-8.850-3.mga1.src.rpm CVE:
Status comment:

Description Yann Ciret 2011-08-19 00:03:55 CEST
Hello,

fglrx-8.881-1.mga2 on cauldron fix the bug of mouse cursor lag I had on KDE.
The amd driver history page (see URL submitted) say this bug was fixed on 11.7.

The user experience is a pity with this bug. So I think an update of the fglrx driver need to be pushed for mageia 1.
Yann Ciret 2011-08-19 00:05:44 CEST

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2011-08-19 00:38:19 CEST
fwang, if it's possible (as you have updated in cauldron)

CC: (none) => fundawang

Comment 2 Funda Wang 2011-08-19 09:29:56 CEST
I've pushed it into updates_testing, please test.
Comment 3 Yann Ciret 2011-08-24 20:50:31 CEST
I just reinstalled Mageia 1 from scratch and update fglrx. It works well.

$ rpm -qa |grep fglrx
fglrx-control-center-8.881-1.mga1.nonfree
dkms-fglrx-8.881-1.mga1.nonfree
x11-driver-video-fglrx-8.881-1.mga1.nonfree

I think these packages can be pushed in update.

Thank you Funda
Remco Rijnders 2011-08-24 20:55:23 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => qa-bugs

Comment 4 Samuel Verschelde 2011-08-25 01:26:48 CEST
Yann, can you tell us on which arch you have tested ? (i586 / x86_64)

CC: (none) => stormi

Comment 5 Yann Ciret 2011-08-25 02:17:57 CEST
Of course :)
I have tested on x86_64 arch.
Comment 6 Dave Hodgins 2011-08-25 09:13:25 CEST
Has anyone tested this on i56?  I can't as my radeon card uses the ati
driver.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 7 Yann Ciret 2011-08-25 21:32:27 CEST
If nobody can test on i586, I will replace my x86_64 system by an i586 next week to test this.
Comment 8 Samuel Verschelde 2011-09-01 22:18:13 CEST
This update still needs testing in i586 on a system that uses the fglrx driver
Comment 9 Samuel Verschelde 2011-09-06 22:29:08 CEST
I just realized that my office workstation uses the fglrx driver, and I have all update candidates installed, so I consider this tested on i586.

However, I'm not sure for such a package 2 different computers are enough. There could be regressions for some kinds of hardware.

So my question : are we sure that this new driver fixes more bugs than it adds ?
Comment 10 Dave Hodgins 2011-09-07 23:19:01 CEST
Given that anyone who does run into problems can always fall back to the
release version, I think testing on both architectures is enough.  Given that
this has been done, I'll validate this update.

Can someone from the sysadmin team push the srpm
fglrx-8.881-1.mga1.nonfree.src.rpm
from Nonfree Updates Testing to Nonfree Updates.

Advisory:
This is update to the fglrx video driver fixes a problem with mouse
cursor lag on KDE.

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2452

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

Comment 11 D Morgan 2011-09-08 01:12:13 CEST
update pushed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => dmorganec
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 12 Samuel Verschelde 2011-09-08 08:53:59 CEST
(In reply to comment #10)
> Given that anyone who does run into problems can always fall back to the
> release version, I think testing on both architectures is enough.  Given that
> this has been done, I'll validate this update.

I do not agree : with only 2 testers, there's still a quite high chance that some users may find a non working X server upon reboot after the installation. Not everyone knows how to downgrade such a package, supposing they found out that the knew driver is what causes their problems !

This update has already been pushed but I really think we should test that kind of update with more hardware. The question is : how ? Mageia-app-db could help in the not too far future, allowing users to subscribe as potential testers for specific packages.
Comment 13 Dave Hodgins 2011-09-09 22:35:46 CEST
(In reply to comment #12)
> Not everyone knows how to downgrade such a package, supposing they found out
> that the knew driver is what causes their problems !

You're right.  In future, if no-one on the qa-team has the hardware to test
a video driver, I'll ask in the dev and general mailing lists, for volunteers.