Bug#503004: RandR: crashes if monitor is disconnected

[Brice Goglin]

Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Monday 02 February 2009 23:26:06 Brice Goglin wrote:
>   
>> X11 from experimental works very well. Your input device config in
>> xorg.conf is probably
>> wrong. You should switch to input-hotplug as described in
>> http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/
>> You will have to switch to it after Lenny is released anyway.
>>     
>
> There is a (policy?) problem with the upgrade
> as this new input scheme breaks one's configuration.
> I tried upgrading to the xserver-xorg packages
> from the experimental section and then even
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> which produces a broken xorg.conf...
>
> I tried removing all InputDevice references,
> but still got double keyboard input.
> Adding
> Option          "AutoAddDevices"        "false"
> finally leads to a workable X11, but this is hardly
> the correct solution.
>   

These are experimental packages :) We are working on making the upgrade
smooth before everything enters unstable.

Does your original crash still happen now?

Brice