Comment 10 for bug 42932

Hi,

Unfortunately I couldn't find an easy way to retrieve the logfiles from the initramfs environment, since I couldn't mount a usb-stick.. so I'll put all information I gathered below:

After "spawning shell within initramfs" I switched to terminal 8 and:

I set XRESPROBE_DEBUG to 1, since I wasn't getting usefull information

... did the chroot statements as described in request ...

"xresprobe nv" results in:
laptop: ; dcc: yes
id:
res:
freq:
display:

"xresprobe nv laptop" results in:
laptop: yes; dcc:
id:
res: 1400x1900
freq:
display: lcd/lvds

I did some tinkering in xresprobe to see what it actually does. If you don't pass 'laptop' (2nd parameter), it uses laptop-detect.

In xresprobe:
* which latop-detect results in the full path to laptop-detect (to stdout)
* laptop-detect results in NO output to stdout, although $? is set to 1 (I'm assuming this means laptop-detect detected a laptop)

adding some echo statements to xresprobe, it seems that it indeed finds laptop-detect, but the "if laptop-detect ..." constructuion does not result in LAPTOP=yes, which causes the remaining part of xresprobe to fail x detection.

I hope this helps pinpoint the problem. If I can do any further investigation, just let me know.