Bug#251020: xfree86 doesn't recognize horiz&vert rates + cat /proc/bus/usb/devices hangs, and so discover does

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> [2004-05-26 14:31]:
> My second install was with Linux 2.6.  All went fine until all packages 
> are downloaded and debconf tried to configure xfree86 (XFree86 again, 
> huh?).  The installation hangs just after all packages are downloaded 
> and they are started to be configured.  The problem was that discover 
> hangs.  I installed strace manually and run "strace discover" -- the 
> process hangs while trying to read from /proc/bus/usb/devices.  "cat 
> /proc/bus/usb/devices" hangs too.  I didn't continue with installation.

Does cat /proc/bus/usb/devices hang on 2.4 too?  Now that you have a
Debian installation, can you install the 2.6.6 kernel from unstable
and check if that hangs a well?
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com