I'm sorry, but what is the actual bug with dkms here? Its task is not
for modifying conf files, but for building kernel modules. Jockey is
the tool which will modify your xorg conf. Can you please elaborate on
what your expectation out of dkms is then?
On 10/21/2008, Sam Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: dkms
DKMS is a clever idea and it would be really useful if it worked
flawlessly. I have again been burned by an upgrade problem that seems to
target only some users of nvidia hardware. The bug had aleady been
reported so I won't go into it here, however I did want the dkms
implementors to be aware of the fact that when DKMS tries to build a
module and fails it still seems to alter the video driver defined in
xorg.conf. When the system comes back after a reboot it now tries to
run a video driver that it can't find loaded and gdm tries to restart
the display many times. The automatic X-configuration tool that comes up
will allow me to get 800x600 resolution back, but I have no way to set
it higher.
Gentleman, you can mess with lots of components under Ubuntu and the
user will never know, but when X is altered, version after version and
has problems version after version it really makes the distribution
looked flawed. If DKMS doesn't work flawlessly by the time Intrepid is
released please turn it off and provide some other way to deal with the
driver issue. I can certainly appreciate what is being attempted, but it
is 100% ready for prime time. Please appreciate the fact that a large
portion of the user base is still working on older hardware and the
current solutions will make it hard to configure X manually if you have
to resort to that strategy.
** Affects: dkms (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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