Comment 8 for bug 42731

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james (james-nurealm) wrote :

This metabug is _not_ strictly a duplicate of Bug #96498. Specifically in the context of booting Ubuntu from the live CD, let us suppose that we do not care if the dual head display is correctly configured. Instead, we suppose that the user simply wants _a_ display, as opposed to a "black" screen, this being the difference between an "immediately usable" and "not immediately unusable" system, and assuming that the text-mode virtual-terminals are still running successfully, as was _not_ the case in one of the beta CDs, in which case the situation is even worse. To achieve this, the configuration script simply needs to distinguish the "currently in use" video card from the "not currently in use" video card, and then continue to configure a "single head" system, as normal. So the question is: Is there an easy way to distinguish which video card is "currently in use"?