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On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:09:46PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > The XFree86 X server used the driver it was told to use. > > There are only two ways you can tell the XFree86 X server which driver to > use in the d-i environment: > > 1) Answer a debconf question. > 2) Have the question pre-answered by discover. Actually, the question was answered by discover (from config script): mob:/# /sbin/discover --disable=serial,parallel --format="%V %M\t%S\t%D\n" video ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility U1 XFree86 radeon > > Consequently, this looks like a discover-data bug to me. Well, it seems to me that it is not. > > Reassigning. > > Discover-data maintainers, > > If discover-data doesn't actually report "apm" as the XFree86 4.x X server > driver for the ATI Radeon Mobility U1 (that's "Class 0300: 1002:4336"), > then this must have been user error. > What puzzled me is that the user answered *yes* to autodetection... In /var/cache/debconf/config.dat: [snip] Name: xserver-xfree86/autodetect_video_card Template: xserver-xfree86/autodetect_video_card Value: true Owners: xserver-xfree86 Flags: seen Name: xserver-xfree86/config/device/bus_id Template: xserver-xfree86/config/device/bus_id Owners: xserver-xfree86 Name: xserver-xfree86/config/device/bus_id_error Template: xserver-xfree86/config/device/bus_id_error Owners: xserver-xfree86 Name: xserver-xfree86/config/device/driver Template: xserver-xfree86/config/device/driver Value: apm Owners: xserver-xfree86 Variables: choices = apm, ark, ati, chips, cirrus, cyrix, fbdev, glide, glint, i128, i740, i810, +imstt, mga, neomagic, newport, nsc, nv, rendition, s3, s3virge, savage, siliconmotion, +sis, tdfx, tga, trident, tseng, vesa, vga, via, vmware Name: xserver-xfree86/config/device/identifier Template: xserver-xfree86/config/device/identifier Value: ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility U1 Owners: xserver-xfree86 [snip] Anyway, the radeon driver has a different treatment in the config script, doesn't it? Anything you think could help? I can reproduce the error any time you like. If you think it is worth, for sure. Maybe is there a log somewhere? -- []' | Google is my friend. Cristian Escalante | Well, usually...
