John's S7 report

[John]

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:

>On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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>>On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:21:38AM +0800, John wrote:
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>>>Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
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>>>>Please test a more recent cd (at least sounder 8) and let us know.
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>>>Good idea. Hang on while I organise ADSL.
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>>><Phones Bigpond>
>>>Sorry we cannot connect you as you're to far from the exahnge.
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>>>Sure.
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>>If you prefer, you can upgrade your xserver-xfree86 and xresprobe packages
>>to the current versions in Warty, and then follow Fabio's instructions for
>>testing X autodetection.
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>He will need also xserver-common, discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect +
>xserver-xfree86. All the other stuff can be placed in hold.
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I'll go for a drive on the weekend and get a new ISO.

The new artwork+grub is a disaster, so that needs to be fixed too.


I've been having a look at XF, and am beginning to think it's broken. 
not just misconfigured. Some of the msgs I see seem a bit odd.