On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:52:41PM +0000, Rob Bradford wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:30:02PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > > Do you want a working XFree86 configuration out of the box, without > > having to answer questions about your hardware? > > > > Try to install xdebconfigurator, > > <URL:http://packages.debian.org/xdebconfigurator>, and see if it work > > for you? To test it, install the package and run > > > > xdebconfigurator && dexconf > > What's the advantage of this over the current situation with the xserver > packages using discover, mdetect and read-edid to guess the hardware setup and > fill in the relevent debconf entries? Well, I think that this is an advantage. Imagine that you change the video card of a fully installed system. Your kdm/gdm/xdm setup will not work anymore, so you want to reconfigure your X. Now you first need to remember which was the package in charge for X configuration is xserver-xfree86 and that you need to do 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' to redo it. Only to find that the xserver-xfree86 configuration scripts will _not_ rerun discover/mdetect/et al if the debconf values have already been defined (at least they didn't for me). So you're stuck with trying to figure out the values yourself or editing XF86Config-4 (based on configuration files you found in the Internet), since you don't know the magic that the config script uses to find which driver/screen/whatever you are using. <grrrr> [ Happened to me before ] > Are there plans to integrate this with the existing xserver package's debconf > setup (with the priority of the questions raised). It already uses xdebconf and I don't think debconf should be used as a generic configuration interface (regardless of the wonderfull work done by the X Strike Force) > > Such an inclusion would be superior for our users compared to having to remember > to install yet another package. I think your work on this is going to be > especially useful for the unattended installs Joey Hess has been working on with > preseed. Well, if you don't want our user to remember it, we could just add it to default task for desktops or have it pulled in by proper dependancies. (xserver-xfree86 could Recommend: xdebconfigurator) Just a thought Javier
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