Re: Bug#458916: critical graphical bug during execution of tasksel
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 04:39:22PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> unmerge 449055
> clone 449055 -1
> reassign -1 xresprobe
> reassign 458916 xresprobe
> forcemerge 430545 -1 458916
> retitle 449055 cdebconf: display corruption after running xresprobe (during pkgsel)
> block 449055 by 430545
> thanks
>
> On Friday 04 January 2008, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > This looks like an extremely interesting variation on #449055.
> > > I'm merging your report with that one.
> >
> > Err, how so? Surely this is #430545 ("xresprobe breaks display at the
> > middle of installation").
>
> Additional testing has shown that both bugs are related to #430545, therefore
> reassigning appropriately.
>
> For the X Strike force: two more cases where running xresprobe during
> installation causes display corruption.
>
> Remi: could you provide some details of the system you saw this on?
> The output of 'lspci -nn' would be a good start.
It shouldn't matter actually. We've just cut xresprobe out of the xserver
postinst scripts, so this shouldn't be an issue. If it is an issue, he
should file a bug against his specific driver.
- David Nusinow
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