Bug#226193: card driver default
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 23:34, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> If read-edid fails to determine the card type, the question, in
> debconf's default dialog frontend, defaults to the first item in the
> list, "apm". This does not seem like a good fallback default. Perhaps
> "vesa" or "vga" would be a reasonable thing to default to if the card
> cannot be detected; something that will probably work, even if not that
> well, if the user takes the default.
Beware that neither of these work on Macs, nor on most non-PC hardware I
suspect. fbdev is another fallback for when /proc/fb exists (and is
non-empty?).
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
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