Bug#346149: Add low-priority question to avoid generating xorg.conf, for preseeding
Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:34:17 -0700, vagrant@freegeek.org wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:50:50PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > It would be nice if there was a low-priority question "Generate X server
> > > configuration with debconf?", defaulting to "yes", and generating no
> > > xorg.conf at all if "no". This would allow preseeders to use "no" and
> > > rely on the X server's automatic detection and configuration logic.
> > >
> > > (Eventually the X server's automatic detection and configuration logic
> > > may well be good enough that it could replace the need to generate a
> > > configuration file, but it isn't there yet.)
> >
> > Xorg's automatic configuration without an xorg.conf is maybe good enough
> > now (using xserver-xorg 1:7.3+10) to consider making this a normal or
> > high priority question, and possibly even the default behavior.
>
> No, it's not. If we don't generate an xorg.conf, you get a keyboard
> with us layout. We need to fix at least that before we can consider
> dropping the xorg.conf creation.
With the advent of input hotplug, this information no longer lives in
xorg.conf. I think we might now have reached the point where we don't
need an xorg.conf by default.
- Josh Triplett
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