Bug#480205: Incomplete Screen Section in xorg.conf

[Jordi Pujol <jordipujolp@gmail.com>]

Because the man page of xorg.conf says that each Screen section specifies its 
corresponding Device.
Copied from the "man xorg.conf" page:

***
       Screen sections have the following format:

           Section "Screen"
               Identifier "name"
               Device     "devid"
               Monitor    "monid"
               entries
               ...
               SubSection "Display"
                  entries
                  ...
               EndSubSection
               ...
           EndSection

       The Identifier and Device entries are mandatory.  
       All others are   optional.
***

I have detected this when configuring with nvidia-xconfig that reads a 
configuration without this entry, and emits an error.

El Thursday 08 May 2008 22:42:31 Julien Cristau va escriure:
> tag 480205 moreinfo
> kthxbye
>
> On Thu, May  8, 2008 at 20:09:05 +0200, Jordi Pujol wrote:
> > Package: x11-common
> > Version: 1:7.3+10
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > dexconf writes an incomplete X config file in the Screen Section:
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> > 	Identifier	"Default Screen"
> > 	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
> > EndSection
> >
> > should be:
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> > 	Identifier	"Default Screen"
> > 	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
> > 	Device		"Configured Video Device"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Attached is a patch modifying that,
>
> Why do you think this is a bug in dexconf?
> The changelog contains:
>   * Don't specify the device section to use in the screen section
>     + xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4-3 and above will use the first device section
>       listed when none is specified. We only write one device with this
> script anyway.
>     + Have xserver-xorg depend on -core >= 2:1.4-3
>
> So this is intentional as far as I can tell.
>
> Cheers,
> Julien