On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:43:04 -0600, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Sunday 12 November 2006 01:06, Larry Garfield wrote: > > > > Another thing to try is if "discover1" works better than "discover": > > > > > > http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/d/discover1/ > > > > Now this is fascinating. If I just switch directly to discover1: > > > > aptitude install discover1 > > > > Then it removes discover, installs discover1, sees that xserver-xorg is not > > fully installed and successfully installs it! Whatever the difference is > > between discover and discover1, it looks like discover is broken on my > > system but discover1 isn't. Very weird. > > > > I'm going to try restarting X and see if it survives. If you don't hear > > from me, it means my system is dead. ;-) Thanks. > > That seems to have done it. Thanks! > > What exactly is the difference between discover and discover1? I'm curious > why one would die and the other not.
For some time I thought that discover1 was optimized for 2.6 kernels. That is not true, however: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/06/msg02440.html Now I have simply filed the discover/discover1 business under "If one does not work try the other; if both do not work remove them." -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
