On 2011-07-11 19:33, Julien Cristau wrote:
> I very much dislike the idea of using alternatives for configuration
> files.
I understand the concerns regarding alternatives and configuration
files, especially if update-alternatives is buggy when it comes to files
sitting in the place of alternative
On 2011-07-11 18:26, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Combining configuration files with slave alternatives makes me nervous.
> I'm not sure what would happen if the system administrator broke the
> symlink (via an editor action, for example) while the alternatives system
> still thinks that it's active; we m
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 17:14:13 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2011-07-08 20:19, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:47:50 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> >> since the proprietary nvidia driver does not work with Xorg
> >> autoconfiguration, an xorg.conf is needed to enable
Andreas Beckmann writes:
> In that case, would it be OK to just install a slave alternative
> directly as /etc/X11/xorg.conf?
> The /etc/X11/nvidia.conf would be created only if there was no xorg.conf
> previously (and no xorg.conf.d/*.conf with a 'Driver ".*"' line) and the
> slave link will be
On 2011-07-08 20:19, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:47:50 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> since the proprietary nvidia driver does not work with Xorg
>> autoconfiguration, an xorg.conf is needed to enable it.
>> I'm planning to use debconf for creating a xorg.conf.d snippet on
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:47:50 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> [resending to debian-x@ instead of just kibi@]
>
> Dear X Team,
>
> since the proprietary nvidia driver does not work with Xorg
> autoconfiguration, an xorg.conf is needed to enable it.
> I'm planning to use debconf for creating a
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