I'll go with refusing to edit manually changed configurations for beta. dexconf and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg clobber xorg.conf and only rely on debconf data, so fixing this to parse and modify xorg.conf is indeed a lot of work.
** Changed in: restricted-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt Status: Unconfirmed => In Progress Target: None => ubuntu-7.04 -- Disabling nvidia driver did the wrong thing with hand-edited config file https://launchpad.net/bugs/92690 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs