xserver-xorg package disreguards debconf settings on upgrade

[Chris Clearwater]

I have a monitor which doesn't play nicely with Xorg out of the box (Viewsonic
G90FB). I must dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and input my horizontal and
vertical refresh rates in order to use any refresh rate other than 60hz. Each
time the xserver-org package is upgraded it overwrites my debconf settings with
seemily default or autodetected values and generates a new /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

[Michał J. Gajda (mgajda)]

Is it duplicate of http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7798

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

No, but closely related.

[Chris Clearwater (chris-detriment)]

Upon further examination, it seems to only overwrite the settings in the
"Monitor" section. "Module", "InputDevice", "Device", "Screen" and "DRI"
sections are all intact.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This has happened to me as well (manually entered sync ranges being clobbered on
upgrade)

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

 xorg (6.8.2-6) hoary; urgency=low
 .
   * Add more resolutions:
     + 1680x1050 for Dell Inspirons (closes: Ubuntu#7181).
     + 1920x1200 and 1680x1050 for Apple LCDs, and laptop LCDs (closes:
       Ubuntu#8138).
     + 1280x800 and 1280x768 for widescreen laptops.
   * Update 000_stolen_from_HEAD_i810.diff to incorporate i830_driver.c 1.14,
     which has a very small fix to DDC code.
   * Add new Radeon PCI IDs to 000_stolen_from_HEAD.diff, thanks to Alex
     Deucher (fd.o#2827). Adjust offsets in 024a, 024b, 025 and 042. Drag
     back support for the RN50 (ES1000) from HEAD.
   * Work around debconf/cdebconf differences in xserver-xorg.postinst.in
     bitdepth handling code.
   * Change test for rewriting keyboard layout from 'if seen' to 'if
     reconfiguring or first installation'.
   * Change default en_CA mapping to us (closes: Ubuntu#7448), default
     sv_SE mapping to se (closes: Ubuntu#7779), default el* mapping to
     us,el with an Alt+Shift toggle (closes: Ubuntu#7656), ditto for ru*
     mapping and us,ru (closes: Ubuntu#8202), and br-abnt2--* fallback to
     br/abnt2 (closes: Ubuntu#8264).
   * Only re-detect monitor settings if we're reconfiguring or on the first
     install (closes: Ubuntu#7809).
   * Write sync ranges by default on i810-based chips (as opposed to
     i830-based) when on a laptop (closes: Ubuntu#7814).