Repeat question

[Samuel Cormier-Iijima]

Hi,

First of all you should probably file a bug against these packages
(with a patch attached, if you have one, of course!). The installer
lives in the "ubiquity" packages (live-installer), and also
"debian-installer" (base-installer).

Samuel

On 10/3/06, Mitch Golden <mgolden at mitchgolden.com> wrote:
> Earlier, I asked the question below.  Is there someone who reads this list
> who can point me at the code for the installer, and the people/list that I
> should be talking to regarding making this fix?
>
>    - Mitch Golden
>
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Mitch Golden wrote:
>
> > 1) I have noticed that on two machines I've tried Dapper on, it properly
> > recognizes the graphics hardware I am using but fails to put in some
> > device options into the xorg.conf file that are needed to make the chipset
> > work properly.  Specifically: On my Dell Optiplex GX100 I have an Intel
> > i810 chipset (if memory serves) and this requires an
> >
> > Option XaaNoPixmapCache
> >
> > line in the xorg.conf file.  If it's absent I see weird
> > striping/pixelation in the KDE menus.  I note that the KDE hardware
> > configurer actually does add this line, but not the ubuntu installer.
> >
> > I ran into a similar problem on my Sony Vaio PCG-XG19, with a neomagic
> > chipset.
> >
> > (As you may note these are both somewhat old machines.)
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > 2) I've recently learned that on Dell laptops, the CPU fan is controlled
> > by the software, not hardware.  If you run the machine without the
> > appropriate software, you can fry the machine.  I believe that therefore
> > the i8kmon daemon should be installed out-of-the-box on these laptops and
> > should be included in some way on the installation CD.  A package exists,
> > but doesn't install the appropriate files to /etc/rc*.d to start the
> > daemon on bootup.  I would like to include all of that as a part of the
> > install, since Dell laptops are pretty common, and having them burn up
> > because of an Ubuntu install is probably pretty bad publicity!
> >
> >
> > Can someone please point me at the right place to go so I can add these
> > things to the installer scripts?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >   - Mitch
> >
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