Bug#643763: dexconf fails due to missing xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id

2011-12-02 Thread Edward Welbourne
> Switching to testing would give you a more “recent” stack, but you could > drag a lot of breaka^Wfun with other packages and upgrade paths which > might not be well tested yet. ;-) I'll settle for the fun ;-) Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian

Bug#643763: dexconf fails due to missing xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id

2011-12-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Edward Welbourne (02/12/2011): > > There's 1:6.14.2-1~bpo60+1 (and a newer X stack) in squeeze-backports if > > you want to try something. > > Thanks - I interpolate that this newer X stack exists in a more recent > release of Debian. The given machine's /etc/issue reports Debian 6.0; > which I

Bug#643763: dexconf fails due to missing xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id

2011-12-02 Thread Edward Welbourne
> There's 1:6.14.2-1~bpo60+1 (and a newer X stack) in squeeze-backports if > you want to try something. Thanks - I interpolate that this newer X stack exists in a more recent release of Debian. The given machine's /etc/issue reports Debian 6.0; which I see is squeeze, with wheezy in testing. I t

Bug#643763: dexconf fails due to missing xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id

2011-12-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Edward Welbourne (01/12/2011): > and, I take it, no newer radeon driver for X is available. The perils > of letting sysadmin give me a shiny new box with a very modern > graphics card, I guess :-( There's 1:6.14.2-1~bpo60+1 (and a newer X stack) in squeeze-backports if you want to try something.

Bug#643763: dexconf fails due to missing xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id

2011-12-01 Thread Edward Welbourne
> This crash is fixed in the current upstream driver (as of 6.14.1), but > only by disallowing rotation when acceleration is disabled. ah. That is sad. >> Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 x86_64 Debian > [...] >> (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon HD 5450" (ChipID = 0x68f9) >

Bug#643763: dexconf fails due to missing xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id

2011-12-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2011-12-01 at 14:08 +0100, Edward Welbourne wrote: > > [...] quarter of an hour ago, I > tried starting a plain user X session and, in an rxvt, typing "xrandr > -o left", which shut down that X session hard. This got a crash > dump: > > > Wed Oct 5 17:50:53 2011 xdm info (pid 6536):

Bug#643763: dexconf fails due to missing xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id

2011-10-30 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:42:45 +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > Off-list to avoid spamming others with large slabs of data ! > No need to do that, better keep all information available in the bug log. For the record, here's the log: X.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Ver

Bug#643763: dexconf fails due to missing xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id

2011-09-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 22:45:48 +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > Hi again Julien, > > and thanks for your assistance. > > > Section "Monitor" > > Identifier "" > > Option "Rotate" "left" > > EndSection > > I take it you mean an xorg.conf containing *only* this section will > su

Bug#643763: dexconf fails due to missing xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id

2011-09-29 Thread Edward Welbourne
Hi again Julien, and thanks for your assistance. > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "" > Option "Rotate" "left" > EndSection I take it you mean an xorg.conf containing *only* this section will suffice; any content in xorg.conf will be merged to what would have been used without it.

Bug#643763: dexconf fails due to missing xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id

2011-09-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 21:20:02 +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > >> Bug: a failing run of dexconf should at least report this ! > >> Reconfiguring xserver-xorg should, ideally, at least fail with $? set > >> when dexconf fails. > >> > > Actually dexconf should stop existing. > > OK, and what wil

Bug#643763: dexconf fails due to missing xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id

2011-09-29 Thread Edward Welbourne
>> Bug: a failing run of dexconf should at least report this ! >> Reconfiguring xserver-xorg should, ideally, at least fail with $? set >> when dexconf fails. >> > Actually dexconf should stop existing. OK, and what will create my xorg.conf file ? Or what do I need to configure, instead, to tell t

Bug#643763: dexconf fails due to missing xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id

2011-09-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 13:38:54 +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > Bug: a failing run of dexconf should at least report this ! > Reconfiguring xserver-xorg should, ideally, at least fail with $? set > when dexconf fails. > Actually dexconf should stop existing. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIB