[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#504692: dexconf generates invalid files

[Filipus Klutiero]

On 2010-07-13 13:48, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On Thursday, 6. November 2008 14:35:38 Julien Cristau wrote:
>    
>> On Thu, Nov  6, 2008 at 04:13:18 -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
>>      
>>> The files generated by dexconf contain a Device section with no
>>> Driver entry.
>>>        
>> There's nothing invalid about that.
>>      
> According to xorg.conf(5), Device without Driver is not valid:
>
>      The Identifier and Driver entries are required in all Device
>      sections.  All other entries are optional.
>
> On 2010-07-13 17:19, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
>    
>> Hi Andreas,
>> the problem is not in nvidia-xconfig, but in dexconf, which generates
>> invalid xorg.conf files, as the original report indicates. I would
>> consider the current form of this bug report as invalid, nvidia-xconfig
>> is not doing anything wrong.
>>      
> I can't get dexconf to produce any xorg.conf at all, it always exits
> with exit code 10 (undocumented). So I can't reproduce the original bug.
> If we manage to reproduce the bug, and Xorg emits errors about the
> invalid config, I'd like to reassign it back to Xorg.
>
> ... later ...
>
> Just tried it in a lenny chroot, too, and there I get a Device section
> without Driver. The xorg.conf from dexconf is identical to the
> originally installed one and Xorg starts (via startx, it's a minimal
> pbuilder chroot with just xserver-xorg and xorg added) without
> complaining about the missing Device entry. So xorg.conf(5) does not
> seem to be correct about the requirement of Device in Driver.
>
> Running nvidia-xconfig, both versions from lenny and unstable, I get the
> error meassage:
>
>      VALIDATION ERROR: Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>                        Device section "Configured Video Device" must have
>                        Driver line.
>
> So this seems to be nvidia-xconfig's fault not to accept the file while
> Xorg does.
>
>
> Andreas
>    
In the end, X maintainers need to decide what is wrong; dexconf, or the 
X documentation. If they decide that Debian is going to diverge from 
standard X in its xorg.conf format, I expect they will adapt the 
documentation and provide a patch for nvidia-xconfig to be able to cope 
with files which are invalid by the standard format.