I work for West Virginia University in the department of computer science and electrical engineering. We run our infrastructure on a modified version of Ubuntu, and we use debian-installer preseed files to automatically install and configure everything the way we need it.
Currently we have a bunch of Intel iMacs that don't like to autodetect the proper graphics driver and resolution on startup, so they crash from using the vesa driver instead of the i810 driver. To get around this, we set video stuff manually in the preseed as follows (the default resolution is 1440x900 widescreen on a LCD): xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/lcd boolean true xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/device/driver select i810 xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/display/modes multiselect 1440x900, 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480 xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/horiz-sync string 28-72 xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/vert-refresh string 43-60 xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/selection-method select Medium xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/mode-list select 1440x900 @ 60Hz The bit about the video driver works, but the resolution refuses to change. When I run debconf-get-selections | grep xserver after the install is done, I get this: xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/lcd boolean true xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/device/driver select i810 xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/display/modes multiselect 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480 xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/horiz-sync string 28-51 xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/vert-refresh string 43-60 xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/selection-method select Medium xserver-xorg xserver-xorg/config/monitor/mode-list select 1024x768 @ 60Hz It's like it's deliberately ignoring the modes and mode-list sections. Can anyone give me some insight into this? Thanks, -- Adam Dorsey WVU LCSEE Systems Operations Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
