Experimental Hoary live CD available for testing

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:42:40AM -0500, Danilo wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman Wrote: 
> > We can do better :-)  We already have infrastructure (used in standard
> > installs) to create a more optimal configuration, and we should use it
> > on
> > the live CD as well.  It just needs a few tweaks.
> > 
> Ah well, that's great, except... My suggestion was based on the
> experience I had with Ubuntu Warty standard install (and any other
> system prior to that, since XFree86 4.0 got out): I had to manually set
> my HorizSync values in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, since I don't enjoy
> garbled screens. :) Perhaps I'm just using cheap hardware, but if I
> knew much about Display Data Channel (DDC) and how X handles it, I'd be
> happy to send whatever data my screen provides to any central database
> there is.

If you don't file a bug about it, it is unlikely to ever be fixed, because
it is working well for many others.

If the configuration code didn't do the right thing for your system, that
code should be fixed (if possible), rather than thrown away.

> I hope to try Hoary Live-CD one of these days, so I may report back on
> that.

Another great reason to use the same detection infrastructure: so that it
can be used for testing.

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 - mdz