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Bug#226193: card driver default



Branden Robinson wrote:
> 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.  :)

Well, in my world at least, scripts are allowed to check the
architecture of the host they are running on.

-- 
see shy jo

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