Bryce, you have to look at this from a support point of view. 1) xorg_info or xorg_driver is not included by default on the OS so I cannot ask a user to run it remotely so that I can get the info of what driver their machine is running. If they do not have an internet connection and a working video display, then we are at a loss because the OS is not supportablke out of the box. Do you see how this can be a major major issue? We cannot assume that the user should have a working internet connection, ask them to install custom software, just to know what driver is being used. This is not a supportable solution.
2) displayconfig-gtk is a gtk application, thus visual. The user will experience an error saying "RuntimeError: could not open display". If a user cannot get to GDM or the graphical login screen, how would you expect them to run displayconfig-gtk. As I have told you VESA is not bullet-proof and does not currently support all video cards as a "fall- back". The fact that you are recommending a graphical tool to someone who can't get a GUI up make me believe that you do not understand the issue. To get this to work, the user would have to manually change/copy xorg.conf until it works so that they could run GDM and run displayconfig-gtk to be able to change the xorg.conf file. Which come first the chicken or the egg? Can you say Catch 22? Until you have been put in the situation of not being able to configure your card from the shell, you will not understand the frustration of the user. Obviously you do not fully understand the extent of this bug since you are suggesting a GUI application to a user that has nothing but the shell. This is why I say that there needs to be a text-based tool to make changed to xorg.conf (to force overriding the automated xorg configuration). Bring back dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg without the automation, or at least create something similar and make sure it gets placed into hardy before release. -- [HARDY] xserver-xorg does not auto-configure correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207409 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
