Orphaned package: system-config-display

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 23:02 +0200, François Cami wrote:

> >> Also, an RFE: X should back out and use VESA if the auto-detected, or
> >> configured, driver fails after 3 attempts instead of attempting to start
> >> 30 times and failing 30 times. A desktop notification should be
> >> triggered that says "Hey! X failed and you're using a basic video driver
> >> - please file a bug <button to Abrt>". Worst case, if vesa fails, it
> >> should dump to a text console and notify the user as such.
> >
> > Agreed.
> 
> Sorry to be late to the fray, but I'm not sure this would work in all
> cases. If we already have modesetting (nouveau or radeon for
> instance), and if the relevant DDX fails, vesa isn't going to work
> either, if I remember correctly... In this case, the best we can do is
> to notify the user, if the screen is at all usable.

Sure, but we could do better to work in some cases, even if we can't fix
them all. (Is it actually impossible for the vesa driver to work after
KMS has kicked in, btw, or is it just something that doesn't work at
present?)
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