Re: install/run problems with Debian 7.1.0
Thanks for your thoughts. My video card is a VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] and I would be happy with a generic SVGA or framebuffer driver. I'm not a video gamer and high performance on my old system is oxymoronic. I wouldn't want to fry the video. I fried a USB port running a chess program on a thumb drive to spare the disk a lot of hashfile reads and writes. I don't wish to discover similar hardware weakness in my video. Yes, I should upgrade.
John
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On Mon, 11/25/13, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
Subject: Re: install/run problems with Debian 7.1.0
To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Cc: "John" <allltaken@yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, November 25, 2013, 4:54 PM
(Adding submitter back into cc.)
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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