Your message dated Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:08:14 +0200 with message-id <20070412220813.GA26909@patate.is-a-geek.org> and subject line Bug#285081: closed by Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> (Bug#285081: xbase-clients: startx could try to fail back to vesa|vga if X does not start up because of a driver issue) has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database)
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- Subject: xbase-clients: startx could try to fail back to vesa|vga if X does not start up because of a driver issue
- From: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:11:54 +0100
- Message-id: <20041210151154.GB30662@dat.etsit.upm.es>
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Priority: wishlist I have thought on this issue while fixing a sarge installation in a Dell desktop (I believe it was an OptiPlex 170L) which should use the i810 device driver. The problem with it, however, is that after a standard Debian installation (sarge rc2 net install) even though the X configuration discovered the i810 card and suggested the driver the 2.6.8 kernel would not load the driver and X wouldn't work. I offered the user an alternate possibility, that is, configuring X with the vesa driver, it wouldn't have all the bells&whistles, but it would probably work. And it did work, as it turned out. Could it be possible (I'm not sure if this should be done by startx or if this should be implemented in other tools, for example, gdm) to have X failback to a "safe" configuration for VGA displays if it's unable to load a given driver. The startx could try to load the XF86Config-4 and, if a driver error was detected (cannot setup the configured display) try to startup with an alternate configuration in which the 'vesa' (or 'vga'?) driver is used for the video card instead? (maintaining the other settings) Doing that and providing some proper input (through log files, maybe syslog) could avoid having users wonder why don't they get the fancy graphics they are expecting and instead get thrown to an obscure shell. Googling I've found this has also been asked for Red Hat [1] already :-) Regards Javier [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102289
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- To: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>, 285081-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#285081: closed by Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> (Bug#285081: xbase-clients: startx could try to fail back to vesa|vga if X does not start up because of a driver issue)
- From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:08:14 +0200
- Message-id: <20070412220813.GA26909@patate.is-a-geek.org>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20070412215633.GA11058@javifsp.no-ip.org>
- References: <461E9CA4.3070405@ens-lyon.org> <20041210151154.GB30662@dat.etsit.upm.es> <handler.285081.D285081.11764113882541.notifdone@bugs.debian.org> <[🔎] 20070412215633.GA11058@javifsp.no-ip.org>
Version: 2:1.2.0-1 On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 23:56:33 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:00:09PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > With the latest X server (currently in experimental), you don't even > > need a configuration file. The server takes care of choosing the right > > driver for you. So this bug does not matter anymore, closing. > > ? Since when do we close bugs because a feature is fixed in experimental? We > have 'fixed-in-experimental' for that! Reopening and tagging. > And we have version tracking. Marking as fixed in xserver 1.2. Cheers, JulienAttachment: signature.asc
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