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Bug#407094: marked as done (Xorg's configuration defaults don't work after installation)

Your message dated Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:24:03 +0200
with message-id <46756E33.9030403@ens-lyon.org>
and subject line Bug#407094: Xorg's configuration defaults don't work after installation
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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Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 1:7.1.0-9


Computer : i386 with a Radeon 9200SE graphics card.

I have tried this week's (January 13) weekly DVD
image. 
Installation worked quite fine, but after I booted
into
my new system, gdm couldn't start the X server, as it 
crashed each time. I tried then to start the X server 
through bash, as root. It failed. I do not have the 
exact output of the crash, but the last line was 
something like "no monitors found."


Finally, I did a "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg". It 
didn't work the first time (the LEDs on my monitor 
blinked - looked pretty cool, though :-), and I had to
pass again the "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" because

I found out that the max. refresh rate of my monitor 
was 60 Hz, and the one set _by default_ by the xserver

was 70 Hz. It works perfectly since then.



I got through my problem, but what if this happens to
a willfull but unexperienced linux user, which will 
after this kind of experience say to ALL his friends 
"don't use linux; look what happened to me last night,

etc.". What about getting the default things to work
so 
that this kind of user may enjoy Linux Debian, without
having to understand all the system beneath. 
Personnally, I'm trying to do my best to show Linux
Debian to my friends, but when they ask me for the 
DVDs, I have to tell them I cannot give them because 
they could render their computer in an unusable 
state (a computer with no graphics is worst than no
computer for a most of people). 



This bug meant is for repairing xserver-xorg's 
configuration defaults, as I don't have the slightest 
idea of how to do it. If you want additionnal 
information, just ask for it and I'll give it
immediately. Thanks in advance for helping. 


(Don't mind, I'm fourteen years old)

___________________________________
Greetings and Happy New Year!
Eduard.


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Closing since the user fixed the problem himself and there is no
information in the report on the actual problem. If anybody ever
reproduces with latest Xorg packages, please reopen and send the
xorg.conf file before and after fixing it.

Brice

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