I Think the idea is to probe for serial mice, best make this a low priority debconf. Yes, defaulting to no serial mice.
--- MINAMI Hirokazu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.3.0-5 > Severity: wishlist > > The preinst script of xserver-xfree86 package seemes to need > very long time to detect video cards. > > The preinst is blocked by waiting > discover --format="%V %M\t%S\t%D\n" video > which takes more than 300 seconds on my system. > > However, if I skip serial port -- i.e. do > discover --disable=serial --format="%V %M\t%S\t%D\n" video > , the result returns immediately. > > Since there should be no video card on a serial port, > would you exclude such slow buses from scanning "video"? > > --- debian/config.old 2004-03-09 22:04:18.000000000 +0900 > +++ debian/config 2004-03-09 22:06:13.000000000 +0900 > @@ -659 +659 @@ > - DISCOVERED_VIDEO=$(discover --format="%V %M\t%S\t%D\n" video) > + DISCOVERED_VIDEO=$(discover --disable=serial,parallel --format="%V > %M\t%S\t%D\n" video) > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Kernel: Linux 2.6.3 > > Versions of packages: > ii kernel-image-2.6.3 20030302(private pkg) > ii discover 1.5-2 > ii discover-data 1.2004.02.08-2 > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com