On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 12:38:55PM +0200, Daniel wrote: > Hm, I still disagree with you about whether the commandline of the > Xserver is the right place to put hardware-specific information You're exaggerating my position. In fact I'm tempted to agree with you; the main problem is that the XF86Config-4 file doesn't supposrt a "DPI" configuration option. It supports "DisplaySize", but that's not quite the same thing. > and wether a default value should be put there. That's for consistency in the (default) Debian user experience. > But if you insist on doing that, what about showing a notice to that > effect during the installation? Would have saved me half an hour of > finding the culprit. Actually, I used to have a debconf note to this effect years ago. It was considered "debconf abuse", so I removed it[1]. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-sparc-changes/2001/12/msg00349.html -- G. Branden Robinson | If we believe absurdities, we Debian GNU/Linux | shall commit atrocities. branden@debian.org | -- Voltaire http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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