Re: Errors in sid xserver-xfree86 configuration
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 05:58, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > 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?
That's what I did, and it seems to work, but the instructions should say
not to specify a bus ID if you don't have PCI video, such as for all the
macs that just have video ram and no video chip. This would otherwise
be very confusing to owners of older macintoshes. The wording
specifically says the bus ID is required of all macintoshes, which is
not correct.
> 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?
I didn't want it to overwrite my config file, but it did, and
importantly, it didn't save the old settings.
When I upgraded xserver-xfree86, it came up with the configuration
automatically. I didn't ask it to. The only question it asked was
about the bus ID, which I hadn't seen when I configured it before, so I
guess that's why it ran the config. But instead of saving the other
items from my configuration, or asking me to enter all the values again
(resolution, driver, etc.), it just blew away all my old values.
Seeing how a lot of people have a lot of trouble getting X to work at
all, this isn't really desirable behaviour.
Mike
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