Bug#483821: debconf support for xserver-xorg seems broken

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Artur R. Czechowski wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.3+11
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
> dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> always gives a message:
> xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration
>    file; backup in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20080531135031
>
> so I decided to try I run it on clean base. I purged the package using:
> dpkg --force-depends --purge xserver-xorg
> and installed it again.
>
> During setting phase I was asked for keyboard setting only. It prepared
> xorg.conf file as provided below. When I tried to run dpkg-reconfigure again
> only I got was:
> xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration
>    file; backup in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20080531135138
>
> It's impossible to get running X environment without manually tweaking of
> xorg.config.
>   

What error do you actually get when running X with this config? Is the
log below the corresponding one? I wonder why fglrx is being used there.
The X server is supposed to automagically detect the right driver to
use, no need to have a complete xorg.conf anymore. Maybe fglrx is
breaking things here.

Brice