On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 08:07:22PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > I tried these new configuration files today, but I had a lot of > problems with them and didn't really get anywhere. I'll look again > this weekend in hopes of being able to provide some useful feedback. > Even with dpkg -P --force-depends xserver-xfree86, the get-edid part > of the config script never seemed to get run. Hrmph. > Also, several things that used to have defaults (I forget the exact > questions, but they were keyboard questions whose answers were "xfree86", > "pc104", and "us") didn't forcing me to actually enter something for > those. When I got all the way through the questions, the configuration > blew out because I didn't have an identifier for the monitor. When I > restarted with low priority, I was prompted for the video card and > monitor identifiers without defaults. In the past, those used to be > automatically detected. (Well, at least the monitor was, but the lack of > autodetection of the video card is probably a discover problem which has > already been reported.) Can you send this bug report your config log file again (from after your clobbering, below)? > Also, the templates file had fields _Description and _Choices. I > clobbered the leading _ to get debconf to not complain and to actually > display the text. Oh, whoops. I should have sent you the po-debconf-generated version. > Let me know if I should work more with these or whether there will be > other files to try. By the way, I'm running 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 now. I > most likely won't have time again before the weekend. > > Just wondering... how are you testing these scripts? I imagine this > must be very difficult to test without a wide array of hardware. I haven't been testing them much; I need to do more. -- G. Branden Robinson | Men are born ignorant, not stupid. Debian GNU/Linux | They are made stupid by education. branden@debian.org | -- Bertrand Russell http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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