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Re: Red Hat's Xconfigurator for Debian?



Arthur Jerijian writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to install the XConfigurator and newt RPM packages from Red Hat
> onto Debian, using the alien program.  I was able to start XConfigurator,
> but it was apparently looking for some Red Hat administrative files.  Is
> there a version of XConfigurator for Debian?  The default XF86Setup
> program does not work very well with my video card and monitor.
> 

On the matter of XF86Setup, has this program been fixed? In 1.2 release,
XF86Setup writes it's configuration file (XF86Config) to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11.
The problem is that the XF86Config at that location is a symbolic link to
/etc/X11/XF86Config and the Xwindow servers use /etc/X11/XF86Config. So after
you use XF86Setup, the symbolic link is trashed and the configuration file is
in the wrong location. I manually fix this by:
1) copying /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config to /etc/X11
2) deleting /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
3) renaming the symbolic link back to XF86Config (in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11)

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