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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