Problem with debconf preseed and nvidia

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:58:38 +0100, Sjors Robroek <sjors at lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> said:

    > Debconf does not seem to recognize my videocard automatically, so i 
    > tried configuring it with the standard debconf preseed file. Contents of 
    > this is as follows:

    > xserver-xorg    xserver-xorg/autodetect_video_card      boolean false
    > xserver-xorg    xserver-xorg/config/device/driver       select nvidia
    > xserver-xorg    xserver-xorg/config/device/identifier   string nVidia 

    > Is there a way to either force debconf to set driver to nvidia wether or 
    > not it exists, or to make sure nvidia-glx is installed before 
    > xserver-xorg is configured?
You can call fai-debconf and then $ROOTCMD dexconf at the end of
installation (in a shell script). This should generate a proper xorg.conf file.

-- 
regards Thomas