On Thursday 14 September 2006 18:16, John E. Perry wrote:
All he said was "sax2 screws up xorg.conf". When asked how it got screwed up, he basically said "I can't remember, you figure it out, and it won't help you because you're not going to fix it anyway"
What would you have said to a comment like that?
"Please send me a copy of your good xorg.conf"? Since he stated clearly that that fixed his problem, and stated clearly what the problem was, couldn't you have gained some information from that?
He didn't "state clearly what the problem was", all he said was "sax2 screwed up my config file". And no, a working system is generally useless for debugging purposes. A broken system can be debugged, but you can't look for bugs that don't exist anymore. In my debugging experience, the really useful bit would have been to find out what he changed to make it work
Even if not, someone should have been able to look at the code to see why the card was not identified correctly, or whether it was misidentifying itself.
The text string describing the card (which was what he complained about) is for human consumption. It isn't used for system configuration. The pci id database that maps PCI ids to text strings isn't even a requirement for a running system. You can run a system perfectly well without it (although the output from system tools like lspci will be much more boring for humans to read)