Comments on: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

By: David Nusinow

David Nusinow — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:38:02 +0000

Vladimir, yes 915-resolution is totally obsolete as of the switch from i810 to intel (1.x->2.x). You shouldn’t use it any more.

By: Aurélien Gâteau

Aurélien Gâteau — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:03:37 +0000

I can feel your pain. While upgrading seems to work most of the time, it’s usually not as clean as reinstalling.
After years of dist-upgrading my Ubuntu box (from Hoary to Hardy…), I decided it’s safer to just reinstall from scratch.

By: David Nusinow

David Nusinow — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:19:50 +0000

The reason for that is pretty simple. Many many people have custom options that remain necessary in the current X server, and we didn’t want to break those configurations. If people are able to manage their own xorg.conf, I assumed that they know what they were doing and didn’t mess with their systems.

The ultimate goal, still in progress, is to get rid of xorg.conf all together except in extreme cases, at which point this problem goes away. We’re pretty close now, since we don’t need to specify very much which means that the package scripts can ignore all those old sections entirely (fonts, modules, etc), but there’s still a ways to go. If some of the more hardcore stuff like input config moves in to HAL config files then we won’t have to worry about xorg.conf, and whatever the user puts in should remain relevant.

By: Vladimir Prus

Vladimir Prus — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:48:41 +0000

Do you mean that 915resolution is no longer necessary?

Anyway, reconfigure had no effect on X-hangs-on-every-second resume behaviour I get with Hardy