Second call for X testers.

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto fabbione at fabbione.net
Wed Sep 1 02:48:10 CDT 2004


On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> The "Please enter the video card's bus identifier" dialog is evil.
>

I am going to pre-seed this information now on normal installations too
but we cannot skip this question, specially on ppc.

> All the dialogs come up in a reasonable order with the current values
> filled in, seemed ok to me.

good

> Changing nothing wrote the same configuration out ... so I guess that's
> a good test :-)

yes :-)

> > Check again /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 comparing it with the working one. You
> > will notice that the configuration is pretty different. It is important
> > here to fire up X and see if it works with this new config.
> > Make a copy of /var/log/XFree86.0.log and of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
> >
> Actually this was almost the same as created by Step#1, except the
> synaptic bit was missing and the video card name was just "Generic Video
> Card".

I guess you tested it on a laptop so this sounds correct to me if the
config was working afterwards.

Fabio

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