[bug?] i810 and /dev/agpgart
Hello
This is my first post to this list, I think it is the right place,
but please redirect me if it's not.
Today I installed a minimal system 2.2r5 from an official cdrom, and
then set /etc/apt/sources.list to track on the 'testing' distribution.
The source of the cdrom and testing packages was mirror.aarnet.edu.au.
I then tried to install X from 'testing':
# apt-get install x-windows-system-core
I encountered a problem with configuring the package - the i810.o
module failed to load because the relevant device file /dev/agpgart
had not been created. I created it with
# cd /etc; mknod agpgart c 10 175
and after that everything worked fine.
However it seems to me that the device file should have been there,
and/or debconf should have tested for it and explained the problem.
Is this a side-effect of my install procedure?
Is it reasonable to expect the device file should have been created
for me?
This is more of a usability issue than a real bug. But it does get
in the way of a new user trying things out.
It's unclear to me where the responsibility for this one lies;
kernel-xxx, xserver-xfree86, or debconf?
Vince
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