Bug#449055: cdebconf: display corruption with multiselect over progress bar
On Mon, Jan 7, 2008 at 16:25:33 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 02 November 2007, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Possibly this is not a cdebconf bug, but an issue in newt (or maybe even
> > elsewhere). cdebconf seems most likely though.
>
> I have just confirmed that the display corruption is _not_ a debconf bug,
> but is caused by xresprobe being run.
>
> If I replace xresprobe by a simple shell script that produces identical
> output, the display corruption does not occur.
> For reference, running xresprobe in VirtualBox on my system results in
> (first 3 lines have a trailing space):
> id:
> res:
> freq:
> disptype: crt
>
> I will clone this BR to the X strike force, but also leave it against
> cdebconf (blocked by #430545) as a reminder of the issue.
Can this be closed now? xserver-xorg has stopped recommending/using
xresprobe in December 2007 (xorg 1:7.3+8).
Cheers,
Julien
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