Ubuntu
xresprobe package

  1. Bug #127008
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 127008

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Aha, I figured out how to reproduce it on my desktop:

Boot with the alternate CD, go through the installation until it has reformatted the drive and started installing things to /target. Next `chroot /target`, then wait until the file /usr/share/xresprobe/xprobe.sh is present, and then invoke it:

 /usr/share/xresprobe/xprobe.sh laptop

Boom, colored squares.

Essentially what this script is doing, is running

 /usr/bin/Xorg :67 -ac -probeonly -logfile "<logfile>" -config "<config>"

using the xorg.conf from /usr/share/xresprobe/xorg.conf, with "intel" specified as the driver.

So... one solution could be to disable running xprobe.sh for driver "intel". I've attached a patch for this.

However, I think this risks ending up with an improperly configured graphics system. Let me experiment more and see if I can come up with a better solution.