Re: New hwsetup

["bmax@gmx.it" <bmax@gmx.it>]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:12:31 +0100
Klaus Knopper <debian-knoppix@knopper.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:27:16AM -0800, stirner wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > there's a new hwsetup (1.4.1) that is different from the old binary. 
> > Now it's a shell script that "looks up everything in /sys and /proc".
> > After the update my graphic card and the mouse were not  detect, restoring 
> > the old hwsetup everything is ok.
> 
> Old hwsetup just created config files in /etc/sysconfig, the new one calls mkxorgconfig by itself. This may conflict with old knpppix-autoconfig, where mkxorgconfig is called later, with different settings.
> 
> Could you please mail me both, the correct (old) /etc/X11/xorg.conf and
> the new (non-working) one, in case it is even created?
> 
> hwsetup 1.4 is supposed to be used by Knoppix 6, which is not released
> yet. I shoud not have published the first version that early, probably.
> :-/
> 
> Regards
> -Klaus Knopper
> 
> > 
> > Any clue?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Max
> > 
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Hi Klaus,

thanks for the prompt reply!!!

>From this side it's a pleasure to test new feautures and I always make a backup before testing ;-)

Here attached you'll find a copy of the two xorg files, anyway this is the diff -u output:
--- xorg.conf-old       2008-11-19 10:43:24.000000000 +0100
+++ xorg.conf-new       2008-11-19 11:43:20.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
 # PS/2 Mouse not detected
-# Serial Mouse not detected
+       InputDevice    "Serial Mouse" "CorePointer"
         InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
 #       InputDevice    "AlpsPad" "AlwaysCore"
         InputDevice    "SynPad" "AlwaysCore"
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 Section "Extensions"
        # beryl and compiz need this, but it can cause bad (end even softreset-resistant)
        # effects in some graphics cards, especially nv.
-       # Option "Composite" "Enable"
+       Option "Composite" "Enable"
 EndSection

 Section "InputDevice"
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@
         #Option     "Rotate"
        Identifier  "Card0"
 # auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxorgconfig
-       Driver      "radeon"
+       Driver      "vesa"
        VendorName  "All"
        BoardName   "All"
 #      BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"

Cheers

Max

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