Bug#514840: Xorg autoconfiguration fails on HP dc7900
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 22:49:58 +0100, Sergio Gelato wrote:
> Support was also backported by you to 2:2.3.2, and yet that didn't help the
> autodetection...
>
> I've just noticed a very relevant item in the changelog for 2:2.3.2-2+lenny3 :
> * Drop G45 PCI ids from intel.ids so that vesa is autoloaded by
> default for these new boards for now.
> So the auto-detection was deliberately sabotaged in that version (which
> predates my bug report by several months); I wonder why? Not that I haven't
> noticed problems with X on these machines, mind you: in particular a tendency
> to freeze the entire system on logout; but as I said, vesa doesn't work for
> me at all so it hardly seems a better choice.
>
I had no G4x hardware at the time, so didn't want the driver to be used
by default without having been tested. I considered vesa a safer
choice.
Cheers,
Julien
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