Re: Bug#294562: Acknowledgement (gdm: Gdm fail to start on hardware change)
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 06:02:13PM +0100, Bluefuture wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 10-02-2005 alle 16:44 +0100, Chipzz ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't intend to be rude, but...
> >
> > The maintainer of GDM doesn't read this list, so this list is not the
> > right place to talk about GDM, You should direct your inqueries directly
> > at him (and good luck getting something fixed :P).
> >
> > kr,
> >
> > Chipzz AKA
> > Jan Van Buggenhout
>
> I had already open the bug against gdm but i think that it must involve
> also xfree package. The problem is also that if gdm doesn't start newbie
> users can't also use gnome without an xfree reconfiguration. Solve this
> problem is also in the interest of gnome and all desktop users. We could
> think at a solution and build a patch against (?gdm/xfree/x.org?) and
> attach to the bug.
>
> Cheers,
> Blue
Notice that this problem is in no way a gdm bug, but a XFree86 bug, so you
should probably be reassigning this bug to the xfree86 source package, or
xserver-xfree86.
Furthermore, i don't think there is a way to solve this issue right now, apart
from maybe having some script which tests if the graphic card got changed
since X was configured and reruns the configuration then or something.
I doubt this will be seriously considered by the X strike force though, and in
any case it is no sarge issue.
Furthermore, the solution to this is easy, X will try to boot three times, and
drop you in a shell once it fails, and there you can easily do a :
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
as root. Should work just fine. Sure, it could be shown in the message
discplayed, or even automatically invoked, but i doubt this will happen all
that often.
Anyway, make sure that you reassign this bug to the right package (xfree86),
and start talking with the X folk on debian-x instead of here.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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