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

[Daniel Blaschke <e9825797@student.tuwien.ac.at>]

peter green wrote:
>   
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: 4.0
>>   APT prefers testing
>>   APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
>> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
>> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>>
>> Versions of packages xserver-xorg depends on:
>> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.11      Debian configuration 
>> management sy
>> ii  x11-common                   1:7.1.0-15  X Window System 
>> (X.Org) infrastruc
>> ii  xbase-clients                1:7.1.ds1-2 miscellaneous X clients
>> ii  xkb-data                     0.9-4       X Keyboard Extension 
>> (XKB) configu
>> ii  xserver-xorg-core            2:1.1.1-19  X.Org X server -- core server
>> ii  xserver-xorg-input-all       1:7.1.0-15  the X.Org X server 
>> -- input driver
>> ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev [xs 1:1.1.2-6   X.Org X server -- 
>> evdev input driv
>> ii  xserver-xorg-input-kbd [xser 1:1.1.0-4   X.Org X server -- 
>> keyboard input d
>> ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse [xs 1:1.1.1-3   X.Org X server -- 
>> mouse input driv
>> ii  xserver-xorg-video-chips [xs 1:1.1.1-4   X.Org X server -- 
>> Chips display dr
>> ii  xserver-xorg-video-dummy [xs 1:0.2.0-3   X.Org X server -- 
>> dummy display dr
>> ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev [xs 1:0.3.1-1   X.Org X server -- 
>> fbdev display dr
>> ii  xserver-xorg-video-i810 [xse 2:1.7.2-4   X.Org X server -- 
>> Intel i8xx, i9xx
>> ii  xserver-xorg-video-v4l [xser 0.1.1-3     X.Org X server -- 
>> Video 4 Linux di
>> ii  xserver-xorg-video-vesa [xse 1:1.3.0-1   X.Org X server -- 
>> VESA display dri
>> ii  xserver-xorg-video-vga [xser 1:4.1.0-3   X.Org X server -- 
>> VGA display driv
>>
>> 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)
>>     
> does this information relate to the boxes on which you had the problem and if so did you add or remove any packages after the upgrade? (i see no mention of mga in this list)
>   
No, this information does not relate to those machines. It was
automatically inserted by "reportbug" when filing the bug-report from my
laptop, which was also used for both upgrades (remote ssh connection).

Daniel