On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 13:32 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > 3. What if you can't bring up X in the first place? (You can't run gnome- > > display-properties if you can't get into X. system-config-display --reconfig > > was a way to fix such problems.) > > That's an X bug. File a bug. You're being obtuse. Being able to recover from a bug is important, unless we're living in la-la land and assuming we'll never create any more bugs ever again. They don't get fixed instantly. > 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. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
