Re: X Windows not installed

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 00:29:01 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Michael M. wrote:
> > Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > >Make sure you have the packages "discover1" (for 2.6 kernels) or
> > >"discover" (for 2.4 kernels) installed, as well as "xresprobe",
> > 
> > Oh, so *that's* the difference between 'discover' and 'discover1'!  I 
> 
> No, neither discover1 nor discover 2 are kernel specific. discover 2 is
> a rewritten version of discover; both are basically obsolete in Debian
> with a 2.6 kernel with the exception of being used for initial X
> hardware detection.

Thank you for the clarification. When I was confused about the issue I
googled through the Debian site and found "switched kernels 2.6 to
discover1" (or similar) in some installer changelog. (Sorry, can't find
the exact link right now.) That was obviously a red herring.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian