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Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.3+8
Severity: important
While trying to migrate from fglrx (which is currently broken for
widescreen resolutions) to radeonhd, I could not generate a xorg.conf
file.
dezemba:~/tmp# DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer dexconf -o xorg.conf
debconf (developer): frontend started
debconf (developer): Trying to find a templates file..
debconf (developer): Trying /usr/bin/dexconf.templates
debconf (developer): Trying
/usr/share/debconf/templates/dexconf.templates
debconf (developer): Couldn't find a templates file.
debconf (developer): frontend running, package name is
debconf (developer): starting /usr/bin/dexconf -o xorg.conf
debconf (developer): <-- GET
xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/keyboard/rules
debconf (developer): --> 0 xorg
debconf (developer): <-- GET
xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/keyboard/model
debconf (developer): --> 0 pc105
debconf (developer): <-- GET
xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/keyboard/layout
debconf (developer): --> 0 us
debconf (developer): <-- GET
xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/keyboard/variant
debconf (developer): --> 0
debconf (developer): <-- GET
xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/keyboard/options
debconf (developer): --> 0
debconf (developer): <-- GET
xserver-xorg/config/inputdevice/mouse/emulate3buttons
debconf (developer): --> 0 true
debconf (developer): <-- GET xserver-xorg/config/device/identifier
debconf (developer): --> 0 ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress
1100 IGP]
debconf (developer): <-- GET xserver-xorg/config/device/driver
debconf (developer): --> 0 radeonhd
debconf (developer): <-- GET xserver-xorg/config/device/bus_id
debconf (developer): --> 0 PCI:1:5:0
debconf (developer): <-- GET xserver-xorg/config/device/use_fbdev
debconf (developer): --> 0 false
debconf (developer): <-- GET xserver-xorg/config/display/modes
debconf (developer): --> 10 xserver-xorg/config/display/modes doesn't
exist
Because of that dpkg-reconfigure does not work.
Thomas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.17 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.28.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
x11-common recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Console Users Only
x11-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: console
x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error:
x11-common/upgrade_issues:
x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value: 0
x11-common/x11r6_bin_not_empty:
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Version: 1:7.3+9
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 15:30:55 +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
> On my new workstation (clean sid install made with debootstrap), after
> xorg installation my /etc/X11/xorg.conf was empty.
>
> I've tried both dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and dexconf, but they
> give up with error code 10 without creating a configuration.
>
> The error seem to be a missing debconf value.
>
> debconf (developer): <-- GET xserver-xorg/config/display/modes
> debconf (developer): --> 10 xserver-xorg/config/display/modes doesn't exist
> 10
>
Thanks for your report, this is fixed in the dexconf script in
x11-common/1:7.3+9. Here is the relevant changelog entry:
xorg (1:7.3+9) unstable; urgency=low
[ Julien Cristau ]
* Deregister old debconf questions before calling dexconf. dexconf calls
db_stop, and we can't use debconf after that. Add a comment to that
effect above the dexconf call in debian/xserver-xorg.postinst.in, to try
to prevent future mistakes. Thanks, Michael Vogt!
[ Timo Aaltonen ]
* dexconf: Remove reference to xserver-xorg/config/display/modes,
which is no longer used.
[ Brice Goglin ]
* Fix "no video driver modules found" message, thanks Robert Millan,
closes: #453930.
* Fix dexconf to write in /etc/X11/xorg.conf by default again,
closes: #456925.
[ David Nusinow ]
* Don't force fbdev on mac mini ppc any more. The ati driver no longer uses
fbdev, and it has been reported to work on mac minis without it.
* Add support for $HOME/.xsessionrc. Closes: #411639
This file, if present, will get sourced during the start of your X
session. This allows you to set session-wide environment variables easily
for things like locale information. Patch adapted from one by Yves-Alexis
Perez. Thanks also to Holger Levsen and Osamu Aoki for advice.
+ Adds 40x11-common_xsessionrc to /etc/X11/Xsession.d
+ Document this in Xsession.5 manpage
+ Add a NEWS.Debian entry about it
+ Modifies /etc/X11/Xsession to declare the location of ~/.xsessionrc.
Custom versions of Xsession (like gdm's) will need an update
* Use run-parts --list instead of a custom run_parts function.
Thanks Vagrant Cascadi for the patch. Closes: #458345, #457606
-- David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org> Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:01:52 -0500
Cheers,
Julien
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