tag 589512 upstream found 589512 2:1.9.3.901-1 thanks Hi Andreas. Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> (18/07/2010): > According to xorg.conf(5), Device without Driver is not valid: > > The Identifier and Driver entries are required in all Device > sections. All other entries are optional. > > But the xorg.conf created by dexconf (I could only get the lenny version > to actually output an xorg.conf) has a Device section without Driver and > X starts with this configuration without complaining about the missing > "required" entry. In squeeze, X starts with a manually generated > xorg.conf with a Device Section without a Driver line without problems > (or any errors in Xorg.0.log), too. Ditto for experimental: | $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | Section "Device" | Identifier "foo" | EndSection > I don't know whether this liberalization was done by upstream or > some patch only applied in the Debian version (the autoconfiguration > stuff?). Anyway, the documentation needs to be updated (I don't > expect a rollback). Upstream: | $ git describe | xorg-server-1.9.99.901-94-g6358a60 | $ git grep -C 4 'required in all' -- ./hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre|tail | | -- | hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre-The | hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre-.B Identifier | hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre-and | hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre-.B Driver | hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre:entries are required in all | hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre-.B Device | hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre-sections. All other entries are optional. | hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre-.PP | hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man.pre-The > As a result programs that parse xorg.conf more strictly (expecting it to > conform to xorg.conf(5)) break on this change and need to be updated. > One of these packages is nvidia-xconfig: > > VALIDATION ERROR: Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > Device section "Configured Video Device" must have > Driver line. (as always?) better trust the code. KiBi.
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