Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2007-01-18 Thread Brice Goglin
Hi, About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding general problems with XFree86 on a Dell Latitude D400. Do you still have problems running X on this laptop? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks. Thanks, Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:22:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > The debconf reorg is scheduled, but I *don't* have plans to introduce a > > spurious dependency of xserver-xfree86 on discover, mdetect, or read-edid. > > Have you considered doing an xfree86-config package th

Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:22:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > The debconf reorg is scheduled, but I *don't* have plans to introduce a > > spurious dependency of xserver-xfree86 on discover, mdetect, or read-edid. > > Have you considered doing an xfree86-config package th

Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-13 Thread Joey Hess
Branden Robinson wrote: > The debconf reorg is scheduled, but I *don't* have plans to introduce a > spurious dependency of xserver-xfree86 on discover, mdetect, or read-edid. Have you considered doing an xfree86-config package that is separate from X and depends on the right set of tools? I like t

Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-12 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 04:22:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > No, read-edid and mdetect are installed by base-config (but see bug #258690), > prior to package installation. They are later removed, iff X was not > installed. [...] > Since X doesn't declare a dependency on them, selecting them for ins

Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 10 July 2004 19:23, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Doesn't d-i install mdetect to autodetect the mouse? > > D-i does install both read-edid and mdetect during first stage installation. > However, they are both _uninstalled_ somewhere during base-config. > (See also #250

Bug#257302: xfree86: general complaint about XFree86 on Dell Latitude D400

2004-07-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 10 July 2004 19:23, Branden Robinson wrote: > Doesn't d-i install mdetect to autodetect the mouse? D-i does install both read-edid and mdetect during first stage installation. However, they are both _uninstalled_ somewhere during base-config. (See also #250422) I have noticed myself t