Jockey tries to override -envy packages with ubuntu packages (with fglrx)

Confirmed, just discussed in IRC. Easy and straightforward patch, good for SRU.

Note to self: nvidia handler probably has the same problem.

Fixed upstream: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jockey-hackers/jockey/trunk/revision/277

Explanation of the patch: This fixes the fglrx handlers' enables_composite() method to detect whether 'fglrx' is already selected in xorg.conf. If so, then we don't need to install the Ubuntu fglrx package to provide composite support, the currently running driver is sufficient (which is also fglrx, but from a third party).

accepted in hardy-proposed, please test.

Ok, here's what happens with the packages in hardy-proposed:
1) 1st try: it says that "Desktop effects can't be enabled".
2) 2nd try (after few seconds): I can enable the desktop effects.

See the attached xsession-errors

Jockey no longer tries to install Ubuntu's xorg-driver-fglrx and therefore doesn't try to overwrite -envy packages any longer.

Thanks, Alberto. The appearance-properties problem actually sounds a bit like bug 208026, but apparently it's a different one. Can you please report a new bug against gnome-control-center?

reported in #221977

This bug was fixed in the package jockey - 0.3.3-0ubuntu9

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jockey (0.3.3-0ubuntu9) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Upload fixes from hardy-proposed to intrepid.

jockey (0.3.3-0ubuntu8) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  * fglrx.py: Do not override already installed third-party fglrx driver with
    --check-composite. (LP: #221968)
  * debian/control: Updated Vcs-Bzr: to point to the hardy branch.
  * XorgDriverHandler, nvidia, fglrx: Set identifiers for newly created
    sections, they are invalid without one. Thanks to Laszlo Pandy!
    (LP: #218478)
  * nvidia.py: Fix "enabled" handling: check if the package is installed and
    module not blacklisted. (LP: #216650)
  * OSLib.open_app(): Wait until the subprocess returned, so that we can check
    the system state afterwards. (prerequisite for change below)
  * jockey/ui.py, --check-composite: Re-check the system after attempting to
    enable the driver, and only signal success (exit with 0) if the driver was
    actually enabled. Otherwise, cancelling installation would invalidly
    signal success to the caller. (LP: #208026)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 05 May 2008 20:49:10 +0200

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