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Bug#414172: xserver-xorg: on sarge-etch upgrade, fails produce usable xorg.conf



tags 414172 moreinfo
# may actually be serious
severity 414172 important
thanks

On Fri, Mar  9, 2007 at 18:40:49 +0100, Daniel Blaschke wrote:

> In Sarge, /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 had the i810-driver configured:
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "Generic Video Card"
>         Driver          "i810"
> #       VideoRam        32768
> EndSection
> 
> After upgrade to etch, /etc/X11/xorg.conf was changed to use mga:
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "Generic Video Card"
>         Driver          "mga"
>         VideoRam        32768   
> EndSection
> 
> and consequently, the xserver failed to start.
> (This happened on two different machines, one of which had "savage" instead of
> "i810", i.e. both times the driver was changed to "mga" for no apparent
> reason.)
> 
> Versions of packages xserver-xorg recommends:
> ii  discover1                     1.7.19     hardware identification system
> ii  laptop-detect                 0.12.1     attempt to detect a laptop
> pn  mdetect                       <none>     (no description available)
> pn  xresprobe                     <none>     (no description available)
> ii  xserver-xorg-input-all        1:7.1.0-15 the X.Org X server -- input driver
> pn  xserver-xorg-video-all        <none>     (no description available)
> 
Hi,

could you tell us more about the procedure you followed for the upgrade?
(apt-get/aptitude, with or without recommends, that sort of things)
xserver-xorg-video-all should have been installed, so xserver-xorg's
postinst could detect your hardware correctly.

Thanks,
Julien

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