You could run 'discover --disable=serial,parallel,usb,ide,scsi --format="%V %M\t%S\t%D\n" video' with a daily livecd-snapshot (if your architecture has one which isn't oversized).
There are a number of similar bugs, where dpkg-reconfigure gets it right... puzzling, as if discover1 isn't available when X is first set up. -- Not detected nvidia GeForce Go 7400 https://launchpad.net/bugs/87496 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
