Bug#551082: closed by Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org (Re: Bug#551082: dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg does not create xorg.conf anymore)
Now that it can in most cases, we don't create an xorg.conf since that would actively make things worse. you said it yourself: in most cases. what about the cases, it doesn't? in last week i experienced on two out of three computers that the autodetection fails. what are people supposed to do? X dumps a config file to its log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) when xorg.conf doesn't exist, you can probably copy that and start from there. the stuff X dumps is rather worthless -- the stanza included in the report's log is not even usably as a starting point. i am not talking about writing always an xorg.conf but about a well documented way to produce one, when needed. i don't understand what was wrong with dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg and i certainly don't understand where that blind trust to those automatisms comes from -- everbody sooner or later experiences failing automatisms. why not including a path to get out of the mess an automatism puts you in? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#551082: closed by Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org (Re: Bug#551082: dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg does not create xorg.conf anymore)
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 16:18:36 +0200, arne anka wrote: Now that it can in most cases, we don't create an xorg.conf since that would actively make things worse. you said it yourself: in most cases. what about the cases, it doesn't? in last week i experienced on two out of three computers that the autodetection fails. what are people supposed to do? File specific bugs, so they can get fixed. xserver-xorg's configuration script was a maintenance nightmare, and its detection mechanisms were worse than those now built into X itself. The config fragment X outputs to the log when it autoconfigures is what it uses, so I have no idea why you think it's useless. /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/examples/xorg.conf also has an example config, fwiw. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
