Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
I've not tried upgrading from Etch to Lenny, but have certainly seen
Lenny overwriting its own xorg.conf on an x86 laptop where I'd had to
add a line (AGPMode if I remember correctly) to get it working.
Is there anything I can usefully do here to test this?
I think
Julien Cristau wrote:
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:24 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Also, if installing on a machine with cg6 is it possible to lock
xorg.conf down to 8 bits (the hardware won't do the default 24) such
that it doesn't revert on upgrades?
Nothing should mess with xorg.conf on
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 08:53 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
xorg.conf does get rewritten by an apt-get upgrade on x86 Lenny, and
If so that's a pretty serious bug. But I can't see how that could
happen in an etch-lenny upgrade, so any details (preferrably in a bug
report against xserver-xorg)
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
[...] but what I don't know is why the
installer is setting it to the default 24 for hardware that doesn't have
that capability.
Just for the record: debian-installer is not responsible for that. The
X.Org configuration is created by the X.Org packages themselves.
Julien Cristau wrote:
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 08:53 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
xorg.conf does get rewritten by an apt-get upgrade on x86 Lenny, and
If so that's a pretty serious bug. But I can't see how that could
happen in an etch-lenny upgrade, so any details (preferrably in a bug
Am I doing something spectacularly dumb or is there a reason why
debian-testing-sparc-kde-cd-1.iso installs Gnome on SPARC with no trace
of KDE?
Also, if installing on a machine with cg6 is it possible to lock
xorg.conf down to 8 bits (the hardware won't do the default 24
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Am I doing something spectacularly dumb or is there a reason why
debian-testing-sparc-kde-cd-1.iso installs Gnome on SPARC with no trace
of KDE?
The cause is that the boot parameter 'desktop=kde' was not added at CD
build time. Unfortunately debian-cd does not have
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:24 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Also, if installing on a machine with cg6 is it possible to lock
xorg.conf down to 8 bits (the hardware won't do the default 24) such
that it doesn't revert on upgrades?
Nothing should mess with xorg.conf on upgrades, so any
8 matches
Mail list logo
