Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 03:35, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> I'm reporting this to the Debian-PowerPC list because the first problem
> was specific to macintosh. In the one item that gets configured, it
> says that Macintosh users need to enter their PCI bus identifier for
> their video card. Users of multiple video cards need to do this too.
>
> However, my Macintosh uses onboard video ram for its video. I don't
> think there is a PCI device for the video at all. That would have been
> the case for a Mac 9500, but not a Mac 8500. I didn't see anything
> about it when I did the "lspci" command.
Don't specify a bus ID then?
> The other problem is that the new configuration nuked my existing
> XF86Config-4 settings. When I restarted X, it went back to 640x480. I
> had to run, I think it was dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to get my
> proper video back.
It doesn't overwrite your config file unless you tell it to. Or do you
mean you wanted it to, but it didn't do it right?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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