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Re: Install doc: X11 ?



On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 06:13:00PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 05:23:11PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > is anyone working on enhancing the installation documentation for Debian
> > GNU/Linux so that basic X11 setup (4.x) through dpkg-reconfigure
> > xserver-xfree86 is mostly described ?
> 
> That'd be outside the scope of install documentation. But I agree,
> there should be some step-by-step HOWTOs for people when the automatic
> configuration doesn't cut it. You can start at www.xfree86.org to see
> if you can find what you're looking for, and if so we can certainly
> point the user to that in the post-install chapter.

Something like short message always helps:

To (re)configure X4 in Woody, run:

  # dpkg-reconfigure --p=low xserver-xfree86

 If it does not work, I guess RTFM: X(7),  Xserver(1), XF86Config(5x), 
 xf86config(1), xf86cfg(1) ... Maybe pointer to HOWTO document.

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+  Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com> @ Cupertino, CA USA         +



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