Re: AGP

[Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:09:07PM -0500, Michael Spang wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >Paul Johnson wrote:
> >
> >>On Tuesday 07 December 2004 8:30 am, Giorgio Raccanelli wrote:
> >>
> >>>I'm in trouble in the installation of the x-server. I have an ATI 
> >>>Radeon 9600, so I installed the driver radeon as suggested in the 
> >>>HOWTO. When I run 
> >>>dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low xserver-xfree86
> >>>
> >>>I'm asked of the PCI bus ID. Now my videocard is on AGP, so what 
> >>>should I do? 
> >>
> >>Leave it alone, I've yet to come across a video card that setting the 
> >>PCI ID actually helped.
> >
> >Except if you run Ruby multi-seat Linux and use IsolateDevice= ;-)
> 
> Heh, true. It is important to note that many of the questions are 
> "optional." It might be helpful if this was made more clear to users.

Well there's really no reason for most users to see the low and medium
priority questions.  That's why they are lower priorities.  It would
make more sense to run

  dpkg-reconfigure --priority=high xserver-xfree86

instead.

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