I've just done a testrun of d-i installer beta4 which worked just fine. There were three issues with the x windows setup though:
Apparently, if one only has one video card, the PCI ID field must be empty for things to work. I did not find this obvious from the dialog and it was prefilled with the ID from my videocard. It took me some experimenting to realise it had to be empty for things to work. Secondly, the setup offered to auto-detect my monitor which apparently worked as I got the correct monitor description prefilled when doing a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 later on. However, the initial setup configures a suboptimal resolution. Shouldn't the auto-detection see that the monitor is an LCD and therefore operate it @ 60Hz with the monitor's native resolution? Last thing I'd like to bring up is the fact that I had to to specify the brand of my videocard. Can this not be autodetected? (lspci knows that vendor ID 1002 is 'ATI Technologies Inc', maybe that could be used? But maybe it's not as simple...) Other than that I completely acknowledge that it must be incredibly hard to support a complex system like x windows on so many platforms. So maybe it is just not possible. But from a user experience it would probably be quite helpful. Best regards Andree PS: I'm not on the list, so please cc me on replies. Thanks a lot. -- Andree Leidenfrost Sydney - Australia
