Second call for X testers.

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:56:05PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:

> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get install discover1 xresprobe laptop-detect mdetect
> apt-get --purge remove xserver-xfree86
> (be sure there is no /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file)
> echo $LANG
> (check if the language is set properly)
> apt-get install xserver-xfree86
> 
> take notes of how many questions you will see (if any).

You forgot "make a backup of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for comparison" :-)

i386 laptop: one question (keyboard layout)
powerpc desktop: two questions (keyboard layout, mode choices)

The powerpc desktop is connected through a KVM switch, so perhaps the DDC
probe does not work.  "xresprobe ati" shows all fields empty (it is a Radeon
RV250).  If I select the modes manually, the resulting configuration works
fine.

In both cases, the resulting config file looked reasonable and worked
correctly.

> Second test - reconfiguration -:
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> 
> this is more a UI test than a technical test. I would like to have
> feedback if the dialogs you see are good enough to understand the
> question and so on.. keep in mind that a single change to these templates
> will kill translations too, but we can change the order of them if
> required.

This was very strange.  I was asked all of
xserver-xfree86/config/display/modes,
xserver-xfree86/config/monitor/selection-method and
xserver-xfree86/config/monitor/mode-list.  This seems quite redundant.
DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer output attached.

> Third test - configuration without hw detection tools - :
> 
> apt-get --purge remove xserver-xfree86 laptop-detect mdetect discover1 xresprobe
> (be sure there is no /etc/X11/XF86Config-4)
> apt-get install xserver-xfree86

i386 laptop: two questions (keyboard layout, mode selection)
  This gave me a vesa configuration with 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480
  selected by default.  I deselected 800x600 and 640x480, since I have a
  1024x768 LCD.  X started up fine and worked

powerpc desktop: two questions (keyboard layout, mode selection)
  This gave me an fbdev configuration with a correct BusID, and 1024x768,
  800x600 and 640x480 modes.  However, when X started, the virtual desktop
  seemed to be 1280x1024, while the screen was 1024x768, so the entire
  bottom panel, and the clock and system tray in the top panel, were off the
  edge of the screen, and the background graphics were misaligned.

-- 
 - mdz
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debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.prerm upgrade 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6ubuntu11
debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.config reconfigure 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6ubuntu11
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debconf (developer): <-- GET xserver-xfree86/config/device/driver
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debconf (developer): <-- GO 
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debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.postinst configure 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6ubuntu11
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debconf (developer): --> 0 Generic Monitor
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