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Bug#697146: xserver-xorg script forces vboxvideo even if virtualbox guest additions are not installed



On Wed, Jan  2, 2013 at 00:14:17 +0100, Eugenio 'g7' Paolantonio wrote:

> Package: live-config
> Version: 3.0.15-1
> Tags: patch
> 
> The xserver-xorg script is forcing the 'vboxvideo' driver on virtualbox
> even if the guest additions (virtualbox-guest-x11 package) are not
> installed. This leads to X not starting on live systems without that
> package.
> 
> The attached simple patch should resolve the issue (still not tested, I
> will do in the coming hours).
> 
This is horribly wrong.  You're poking dpkg-internal paths with some
assumptions about which package contains the driver, for something which
seems entirely unnecessary because you could just let Xorg do its
driver-selection job.

Cheers,
Julien

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