On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:52:36AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > 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?). Don't worry; in debian-installer land, all the world's an i386. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | The Rehnquist Court has never Debian GNU/Linux | encountered a criminal statute it branden@debian.org | did not like. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- John Dean
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