Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+2 Severity: important Hi,
I recently upgraded my x.org server in sid, and, after upgrade, the X server would not work. But this is another issue I will try to understand at another time. Anyways, the thing is, since my conf was not working, I wanted to try to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, which I would assume to work, but didn't in my case, because discover was not installed. Here is the message I get after reconfiguring when discover is not installed: xserver-xorg postinst warning: overwriting possibly-customised configuration file; backup in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20070917193443 dexconf: error: cannot generate configuration file; xserver-xorg/config/device/driver not set. Aborting. Reconfigure the X server with "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" to correct this problem. xserver-xorg postinst warning: error while preparing new Xorg X server configuration file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.dpkg-new; not attempting to update existing configuration Note that /etc/X11/xorg.conf.dpkg-new doesn't even exist after this, and that I never get asked what driver to use. After installing discover, everything works fine. Mike -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xserver-xorg depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy ii x11-common 1:7.3+2 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc ii xbase-clients 1:7.3+2 miscellaneous X clients - metapack ii xkb-data 1.0~cvs.20070916-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4-2 X.Org X server -- core server ii xserver-xorg-input 1:1.2.0~git20070819-3 X.Org X server -- evdev input driv ii xserver-xorg-input 1:1.2.2-3 X.Org X server -- keyboard input d ii xserver-xorg-input 1:1.2.2-5 X.Org X server -- mouse input driv ii xserver-xorg-video 1:6.6.193-3 X.Org X server -- ATI display driv ii xserver-xorg-video 1:1.3.0-4 X.Org X server -- VESA display dri Versions of packages xserver-xorg recommends: ii discover 2.1.2-2 hardware identification system ii dmidecode 2.9-1 Dump Desktop Management Interface ii laptop-detect 0.13.2 attempt to detect a laptop ii libgl1-mesa-dri 7.0.1-2 A free implementation of the OpenG ii xresprobe 0.4.23debian1-0.1 X Resolution Probe -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
