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Re: Reconfiguring Xorg



On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:14:43AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 07:56 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:34:11AM -0400, André Allavena wrote:
> > > Hi list, 
> > > 
> > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg asks me a few questions, but doesn't
> > > write anything to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > > 
> > > Where does the configuration gets writen?
> > > 
> > > Running Debian unstable (well, trying to install, really)
> > 
> > have you hand editted the xorg.conf? there are instructions at the
> > beginning of the file that tell you what to do if you have
> > hand-editted the file.
> 
> xorg.conf says:
> # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically
> # updated again, run the following command:
> #   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> 
> So I back up xorg.conf, run that command, select a driver (different
> from the one in the files), and the file is not modified.  Guess that
> doesn't work.
> 
> Using -plow doesn't work either.

yeah, I saw your post come in just after I sent mine. 
well, I'm stumped then. I remember there was a thread in the recent
past about this subject, but don't recall its outcome.

A

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