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Re: install/run problems with Debian 7.1.0



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Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> (2013-11-25):
> Let me try to translate the complaint into your terminology.
> 
> I think he's complaining that the installer gets X configuration right 
> for its own use, but wrong for the installed system, where apparently X 
> gets it wrong,
> 
> There's some plausibility to the claim that the installed system 
> *should* be able to get things as right as the installer.
> Maybe this isn't as much an installer problem than an installed systen 
> problemm.  Presumably whatever code the installer uses at install 
> time should also be part of X, or whatever setup happens at boot 
> time.
> 
> It' a bit ironic that the complaint should be against the piece of code 
> that actually does get it right, but I guess that's life.

d-i uses fbdev (on linux, vesa on kfreebsd), which is generic but not
efficient at all. The same could be used in the installed system, but X
uses whatever is more suitable (usually: intel, radeon, or nouveau). They
tend to do a lot more things, to have a huge codebase, and to have bugs
(and/or trigger kernel-side bugs).

Get a bug reported there, done:
  http://x.debian.net/howto/report-bugs.html

Mraw,
KiBi.

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