Comment 3 for bug 110088

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: [Bug 110088] Re: when I change my graphics card X no longer works

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:29:06AM -0000, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 3731 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/3731
>
> That's not going to be flawless either. X hardware detection is also very buggy.
> However, I think it is step in the right direction. Instead of maintaining a different hardware detection with different bugs Ubuntu users will collect data about the cases where X detection fails.
>

Certainly, it won't be perfect. But the advantage of using something
common with upstream is we can rely on the larger community to help with
addressing those bugs, and won't have to fix them independently.

I also plan to continue maintaining the current system and hopefully
fixing up whatever bugs can easily be repaired, so that it will be
available if the upstream detection system fails in some circumstances
and a fallback is required. I think you mentioned in one of the other
bugs that there are cases where xresprobe works but xorg's detection
doesn't.

Bryce