Subject: Re: Xautoconfig on boot
From: Hollis Blanchard (hollis-lists@austin.rr.com)
Date: Mon Oct 15 2001 - 22:14:15 MDT
on 15/10/01 8:44 PM, Bill Fink at billfink@mindspring.com wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>>
>> The problem is that when you boot using offb, you cannot change the color
>> depth or the resolution of your screen. X, as configured by XF86Config, is
>> almost guaranteed to try to change these settings, and when that fails it
>> will exit with the uninformative "No screens found" error message.
>>
>> Xautoconfig (run only under offb) saves us here - it changes your XF86Config
>> so that it exactly matches your current resolution/color depth, so X works!
>>
>> I do think backing up the old (non-offb) XF86Config is an extremely good
>> idea, but don't be so quick to criticize Xautoconfig... :)
>
> Hmmm. Is there any simple way the script could check if the previous
> XF86Config was a non-offb one, and if so, make a backup copy for the
> user?
I don't think so. The driver used in the offb case is "fbdev", which is
perfectly valid...
Perhaps a tag could be appended to the Xautoconfig-created XF86Config, and
then grep for that tag.
-Hollis
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