Bug#481811: Bug in Debian Sid: monitor cannot be reconfigured

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

reassign 481811 xserver-xorg
thanks

On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 20:18:54 +0200, Uwe Bugla wrote:
> Package: dpkg, xserver-xorg

> I am running the latest Debian Lenny / Sid combination and wanted to adjust
> a workstation to another monitor.
> 
> Traditionallly that's done with the following command:
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.

That command is not provided by dpkg, it's from debconf (yes, it's a bit
missleading).

> If I run that command, the script ends up with the question whether to
> emulate a 3-button mouse or not.
> 
> There is no questioning for graphics card RAM, horizontal and vertical 
> frequency range, colour depth, name of xserver, producer of graphics card
> and so on. Someone seems to have screwed up the configure script.
> 
> If you set up Debian Lenny from scratch everything is fine, but if you try
> to reconfigure the xserver you seem to be lost.
> This bug appears independently from the type of xserver - it's part of 
> the "configure" option of the dpkg-Package.

If there's any problem, it would be in xserver-xorg debconf support,
but I'll leave this decision to the XSF.

regards,
guillem