Bug 438791 - firstboot should not create xorg.conf for Live instances
Summary: firstboot should not create xorg.conf for Live instances
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: LiveCD
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F9Blocker
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Reported: 2008-03-25 09:27 UTC by Jens Petersen
Modified: 2008-04-04 13:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-04-01 16:24:44 UTC
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Description Jens Petersen 2008-03-25 09:27:32 UTC
Description of problem:
Live instances of Fedora get a xorg.conf generated (presumably
by firstboot?).  Now that we have a persistence option for Live
images on USB it would be better not to create the xorg.conf file
since the persistent image may be booted on a different machine
with different graphics chipset, etc.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. # livecd-tools-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-md 512 ...
2. boot live image on computer A
3. later use live image on computer B with different graphics hardware
  
Actual results:
3. X doesn't start because wrong driver loaded.

Expected results:
3. no xorg.conf file so that it starts on any computer

Additional info:
Workaround is to delete xorg,conf after 2.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2008-03-25 13:34:22 UTC
firstboot doesn't do this, it's the livecd init script.  And there's one or two
things I need to double check with ajax this week before changing this

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2008-04-01 16:24:44 UTC
Changed this last week.

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2008-04-04 09:32:36 UTC
Now it runs system-config-display?

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2008-04-04 13:33:06 UTC
The firstboot initscript had changed its logic -- Chris fixed this yesterday
after I finally figured out what was launching it.


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