Because the man page of xorg.conf says that each Screen section specifies its
corresponding Device.
Copied from the "man xorg.conf" page:
***
Screen sections have the following format:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "name"
Device "devid"
Monitor "monid"
entries
...
SubSection "Display"
entries
...
EndSubSection
...
EndSection
The Identifier and Device entries are mandatory.
All others are optional.
***
I have detected this when configuring with nvidia-xconfig that reads a
configuration without this entry, and emits an error.
El Thursday 08 May 2008 22:42:31 Julien Cristau va escriure:
> tag 480205 moreinfo
> kthxbye
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 20:09:05 +0200, Jordi Pujol wrote:
> > Package: x11-common
> > Version: 1:7.3+10
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > dexconf writes an incomplete X config file in the Screen Section:
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "Default Screen"
> > Monitor "Configured Monitor"
> > EndSection
> >
> > should be:
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "Default Screen"
> > Monitor "Configured Monitor"
> > Device "Configured Video Device"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Attached is a patch modifying that,
>
> Why do you think this is a bug in dexconf?
> The changelog contains:
> * Don't specify the device section to use in the screen section
> + xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4-3 and above will use the first device section
> listed when none is specified. We only write one device with this
> script anyway.
> + Have xserver-xorg depend on -core >= 2:1.4-3
>
> So this is intentional as far as I can tell.
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
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