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Re: apt-get dist-update problem



On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote:
| Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM, dman wrote:
| 
| d> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote:
| d> | I just did a apt-get dist-update to testing, and it killed my X.
| d> | Why?
| 
| d> Probably because you didn't configure X after the upgrade.
|
| Ok and how do I do this?

When I installed X4 (install, not upgrade) recently debconf asked me a
bunch of questions, then generated a config file.  The config file is
named /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 by default so that you can have
simultaneous X3 and X4 installs.  

With X4 the config is built-in, you don't need a separate program.
Run "X -configure" from a console (you might need the full path to X,
I'm not sure) and it will autoprobe and generate the file.  This
didn't quite work for me on one machine (el-cheapo SiS6326 card).  I
got a config file, but it didn't work.  I manually edited the
generated config file to have the same options as my old X3 config
file, and everything worked fine.

HTH,
-D



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