[PLUG] Switching consoles & video card

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 18:20, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   1) This is a Red Hat 7.3 box running the 2.4.19 kernel and XFree86-4.0.2.
> When I rebooted the box, kudzu recognized that the 3D Labs Permedia was
> removed and the ATI Xpert 2000 inserted in its place. "Cool!", thought I,
> "that's easier than hand-tweaking the files as in days of yore." Except, ...
> 
>   When I tried to startx, the server crashed and burned because it could not
> find the screen section. Well, I edited /etc/X11/XF86config-4 and replaced
> the two references to 3D Labs with references to ATI Xpert. Now it works
> just fine. So, why didn't kudzu change /etc/X11/XF86config-4 when it
> recognized that the hardware had changed?
> 
>   I'm sure there's a rational explanation and I'd like to be clued in to it.

apt-get source kudzu

Fix it.

Send a patch to the BTS tagged as a "patch".  The maintainer will see
that it is correct and forward it upstream.  Thank you for fixing that
damn printer.