[Bug 1222618] Re: Additional Driver choices don't always correspond correctly to installation actions

[Quinn Balazs]

Confirmed, strangely fglrx-updates, xserver-xorg-video-ati and fglrx
were the only driver updates that I could get this behavior out of... If
anybody finds this duplicatable with anything else please note it.

** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Additional Driver choices don't always correspond correctly to
  installation actions

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  TL;DR: Double-check the indexing of radio buttons in the Additional
  Drivers dialog and how they correspond to installation actions,
  because there's something fishy going on.

  I have a Radeon HD 6870, and on a fresh 13.04 install I wanted to
  install proprietary drivers for it. Found the "Additional Drivers" tab
  and had three choices which were, in order: xserver-xorg-video-ati,
  fglrx-updates, and fglrx. I selected fglrx-updates, hit "Apply
  Changes", and afterward confirmed with apt that it was installed. I
  rebooted, and all was fine.

  Later the same day, I wanted to revert to xserver-xorg-video-ati. I go
  into the dialog, select it, Apply Changes, and am decidedly unhappy to
  learn from apt that now fglrx-updates has been removed and replaced
  with fglrx instead of xserver-xorg-video-ati. The dialog still assured
  me that this was not the case. Seeing as fglrx was not installed, I
  told the dialog to install it. Afterwards, apt said fglrx-updates was
  installed again! So I told the dialog to install fglrx-updates, and
  finally both versions of fglrx are uninstalled and replaced by
  xserver-xorg-video-ati. At this point, the Additional Drivers dialog
  still happy thinks that fglrx-updates is installed.

  After a reboot, Additional Drivers agrees with apt that xserver-xorg-
  video-ati is what is installed.

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