IS this the correct place to post a bug?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 07:48:14AM -0700, Darren Critchley wrote:

> While it is not a fault of Ubuntu, I thought I would mention it here.
> Xfree86Config does generate a problem with some monitors, mainly the 
> ones it cannot figure out, while this is an XFree problem, I thought I 
> would post it even though the plans are to move to the other X project.
> 
> When Xfree86 cannot figure out your brand of monitor it will place a 
> generic statement in the config file. In the case of my monitor, a Sampo 
> 761 based model which comes up as a 17" Monitor.
> The problem is, it actually writes the config file as "17" Monitor" as 
> you can guess, the line becomes truncated at the second " and Xfree86 
> will not start. This actually happens across all Linuxes, and I am aware 
> of the problem, however, newbie to Ubuntu might not be so savvy.
> 
> Anyways, it is an Xfree problem, but I thought I would bring it to your 
> attention as there are going to be some Ubuntu users out there that will 
> encounter this problem, and they cannot be expected to edit the 
> Xfee86Config-4 file to get X started.

Should be easily fixed.  Please file a bug in bugzilla, using the
"xserver-xfree86" component.

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 - mdz