On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:52:25AM +0100, Bluefuture wrote: > i want to talk to you about a problem in x.org/xserver. > When a newbie user change the video card or some other sensible > component - like monitor - caused by a component crash or simply by an > hardware upgrade Xfree and X.org in debian an ubuntu will not start > again on the first boot with the new hardware (specially if the user > change the videocard with another one that need a different driver). > For an expert user is simple to solve, but for a newbie: > 1st he had a crashed system > 2nd The rescue process isn't good for a newbie: > login to the console, sudo with dpkg-reconfigure --priority=high > xserver-xfree86 > > IMHO isn't a good solution. > How we can approach to solve this problem? Cache the output of either lspci -n | grep 'Class (280|300)' or discover; if a) X fails to start, and b) the configuration has changed, have ?dm throw up a Debconf prompt saying 'I think your hardware has changed, should I have a shot at reconfiguring?'.
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