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Re: dexconf should default to PCI:1:0:0 ?

I'm following up to a very old debian-x message which I found on google
when my sarge install baffled me by demanding to know my video card's
PCI address.  Branden's explanation immediately got me going again,
but since he asks for suggestions to avoid this problem which bothered
me the same way it bothered someone else almost 3 years ago, I will offer
a suggestion (see below).

On Sat, 29 May 2004, Branden Robinson wrote <217Rk-MK-19@gated-at.bofh.it>:
[...]

If you have suggestions for how the following can be improved, please
offer them. Template: xserver-xfree86/config/device/bus_id Type: string _Description: Please enter the video card's bus identifier. 
Users of PowerPC machines, and users of any computer with multiple video
devices, should specify the BusID of the video card in the format:
. PCI:nn:nn:nn . 
(where each nn is a decimal number referring to the card's bus, device, and
function number, respectively). . 
For users of multi-head setups, this option will configure only one of the
heads.  Further configuration will have to be done manually in the X server
configuration file, /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. . Users of SGI Indigo2 XL machines should specify simply "1" here. . You may wish to use the "lspci" command to determine the bus location of your 
PCI or AGP video card.  Keep in mind that lspci reports the bus, device, and
function numbers in hexadecimal, not decimal.
. When possible, this question has been pre-answered for you and you should accept the default unless you know it doesn't work. . 
Users of machines other than PowerPCs or SGI Indigo2 XLs with only one video
card should leave this entry blank. 
Does anybody actually read the template descriptions I write?

[...]

I read it.  It appears on a screen by itself, with only the option <OK>
to take you to the next screen which then asks for the address and offers
a blank text entry area, and only has the option to accept whatever one
enters there [including the default blanks] and then moving on to the next
item.  At this point I *really* wished I could go back and re-read your
very helpful template description, but I couldn't find a way to do that.

I would suggest either combining these as one screen, so that the poor
newbie has the description available as he tries to figure out what to
enter, or maybe add a button to the actual address entry screen which
gives the option to go back and re-read the template description.
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