You could run 'discover --disable=serial,parallel,usb,ide,scsi --format="%V %M\t%S\t%D\n" video' with a daily livecd-snapshot (if your architecture has one which isn't oversized).
There are a number of similar bugs, where dpkg-reconfigure gets it right... puzzling, as if discover1 isn't available when X is first set up.
You could run 'discover --disable= serial, parallel, usb,ide, scsi --format="%V %M\t%S\t%D\n" video' with a daily livecd-snapshot (if your architecture has one which isn't oversized).
There are a number of similar bugs, where dpkg-reconfigure gets it right... puzzling, as if discover1 isn't available when X is first set up.