Bug#430545: Display goes off at the mid of installation

[David Nusinow <dnusinow@speakeasy.net>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:19:18AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> As explained by Matthew earlier, this problem is probably caused by
> xresprobe probing available video modes. There is no easy way to fix it
> for now apart from not probing at all but that might generate buggy
> xorg.conf. However, we expect xresprobe to be dropped in the long term
> thanks to the server autoconfiguration features.

I'm not sure that the xserver's autoprobing is going to be a whole lot
better than what xresprobe is doing. We may have to keep in mind what sort
of broken hardware can cause the probe to fail like this and possibly work
around it in the server if it doesn't already.

 - David Nusinow